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From Microsoft: ASP.NET MVC 2 provides a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 runtime. It’s 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 time to provide feedback on this Release Candidate (RC) will be very short as Microsoft is fast approaching the Release-to-Manufacturing (RTM) version.
Microsoft has released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work done in Preview 1 released two months ago. New features include:
xVal is an open-source validation helper for ASP.NET MVC that lets you use your own choice of server-side validation framework (e.g., Microsoft’s DataAnnotations attributes, or Castle Validator, or NHibernate Validaion) and dynamically generates client-side validation code from your rules.
Following are the new features in v1.0:
Microsoft has launched a new WebsiteSpark program for independent Web developers and companies that build Web applications and Web sites for others. The program enables qualified developers to receive FREE software, support and business resources from Microsoft for three years. The purpose is to help independent Web developers expand their business and build great Web solutions using ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint and PHP.
WebsiteSpark provides the following free software licenses:
The only two requirements to join the program are:
If you meet these requirements, visit the WebsiteSpark website to enroll in the program. As part of the enrollment process, you can pick either a network referral partner (for example: a Web host or an existing Microsoft partner), or enter a referral code that you have received at an event or from a Microsoft employee. Or you can send an email to webspark@microsoft.com to get a referral code quickly.
The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library v3.1 (Anti-XSS v3.1) is an encoding library designed to help developers protect their ASP.NET web-based applications from XSS attacks. It differs from most encoding libraries in that it uses the white-listing technique — sometimes referred to as the principle of inclusions — to provide protection against XSS attacks. This approach works by first defining a valid or allowable set of characters, and encodes anything outside this set (invalid characters or potential attacks). The white-listing approach provides several advantages over other encoding schemes.
New features in version 3.1 of the Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library include:
The ASP.NET team has launched a new Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that provides caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service is available for free, does not require any registration, and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Content delivery networks (CDNs) are composed of “edge cache” servers that are strategically placed around the world at key Internet network points. These servers cache and deliver all types of content – including images, videos, CSS and JavaScript files. Using a CDN can significantly improve a website’s end-user performance, since it enables browsers to more quickly retrieve and download content.
The Microsoft AJAX CDN makes it easy to add the jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX script libraries to your websites, and have them be automatically served from one of our thousands of geo-located edge-cache servers around the world.
ASP.NET MVC 2 first preview is now released to public. It’s 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).
New features include:
Nearly every web developer in the world knows about Firebug. Laurent Chesnais has created FireAtlas, a similar Firefox extension for ASP.NET AJAX Developers. Features include:
Apress has released one of the first books for the ASP.NET Model-View-Controller Framework: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework by Steven Sanderson.
The ASP.NET MVC Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It introduces a radically new high–productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test–driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET 3.5.
An integral benefit of this book is that the core Model–View–Controller architectural concepts are not simply explained or discussed in isolation, but demonstrated in action. You’ll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e–commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# 3.5 language features and unit–testing best practices. By gaining this invaluable, practical experience, you can discover MVCs strengths and weaknesses for yourself—and put your best learned theory into practice.
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