Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

Note Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 RC is also installed is not supported.

New Features in ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM

The following features are new since the RC release of ASP.NET MVC 2.

Templated Helpers Allow You to Specify Extra View Data

ASP.NET MVC 2 now includes new overloads of the EditorFor and DisplayFor methods. These overl...

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 has been released and is available for download.

For those that don't know what ASP.NET MVC 2 is. ASP.NET MVC 2 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic using the view,...

If you download ASP.NET MVC from Microsoft, install it and create a MVC website you might run into a couple of gotchas in regards to the database. First of all ASP.NET MVC use SQL Server Express by default in the connection string. So if you were to run your ASP.NET MVC website, then clicking on login you would get this error:

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and...

One of the often asked questions on ASP.NET forum I visit is how to change SQLDataSource parameter. I know two common solutions to this problem, though I only tried one in my own web-pages.

I've just learned about another interesting solution which is presented in Peter Kellner's blog. See also another blog discussing this approach.

The solution I'm familiar with and used is to set the parameter in S...

A programmatic example of how to export an HTML file to excel while keeping grid lines visible. This solution does not require the use of a COM object.