2010 New Year’s Resolution
Dec 31st
Happy New Year 2010.
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Best of luck for the upcoming New Year 2010.
ASP.NET MVC 2 RC is released today
Dec 17th
Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC 2 is released today.
Brief Description
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, user-input handling using the controller, and the domain logic using the model. ASP.NET MVC applications are easily testable using techniques such as test-driven development (TDD).
The installation package includes templates and tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 to increase productivity when writing ASP.NET MVC applications. For example, the Add View dialog box takes advantage of customizable code generation (T4) templates to generate a view based on a model object. The default project template allows the developer to automatically hook up a unit-test project that is associated with the ASP.NET MVC application.
Because the ASP.NET MVC framework is built on ASP.NET 3.5 SP 1, developers can take advantage of existing ASP.NET features like authentication and authorization, profile settings, localization, and so on.
Installation Notes
The ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 can be downloaded from the following page: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=157071
ASP.NET MVC 2 can be installed and can run side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC 1.0.
Note: Because Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 share a component of ASP.NET MVC 2, installing the ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate release on a computer where Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is also installed is not supported.
Documentation
Documentation for ASP.NET MVC 2, which includes tutorials, technology overviews, code samples, and API reference, is available on the MSDN Web site. A good starting point is the ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) topic (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=159758).
Tutorials and other information about ASP.NET MVC are also available on the ASP.NET Web sitehttp://www.asp.net/mvc/.
What’s Next?
RTM of course! The RTM release of ASP.NET MVC will be included in the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, which is slated for some time in March. The VS2008 version of ASP.NET MVC 2 might release earlier than that. We’re still working out those details.
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is now Available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers
Nov 18th
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta along with Office Web Applications are now available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers.
TechNet Plus and MSDN subscribers can now download and evaluate Office 2010 Beta.
Public download for Office 2010 Beta will be available on November 18th 2009.
The most significant change in this Beta Build from the Technical Preview is the new installation procedure for test versions of Office 2010 SKUs, Upload Center, modified version of Backstage view and new refreshed icons for all Office products.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta are now available for download for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers.
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta from MSDN
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta from TechNet Plus
Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2 Editions are available now
Oct 22nd
Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions are available now for everyone to download.
The Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta 2 offers an exciting experience with the new integrated development environment, a new editor built in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and support for the new .NET Framework.
Download and get started today!
Express Versions
The Visual Studio Express family is unchanged from 2008 as it comes in four versions:
- Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (Online Installation Link)
- Visual Basic 2010 Express ( Online Installation Link)
- Visual C# 2010 Express (Online Installation Link)
- Visual C++ 2010 Express (Online Installation Link)
Offline Installation
You can also download an ISO image that contains all of the Express products (Total Size: 737MB)
For more details about Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions.
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download for all MSDN subscribers
Oct 20th
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download for all MSDN subscribers.
If you have MSDN access, go ahead and start downloading.
Here is a list of all the downloads that MSDN subscribers now have access to:
