ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview
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Creating a New ASP.NET MVC Project

You can build your own copy of the ASP.NET MVC assemblies by downloading the MVC source and compiling it locally, or alternatively you can download a VS Template package to get a pre-built version of them along with a Visual Studio project template that you can use to quickly build a new ASP.NET MVC Project that uses the latest bits.

After you install the ASP.NET MVC source refresh .VSI template, a new "ASP.NET MVC Application" project template will show up under the "My Templates" section of your "New Project" dialog:

Figure 1

This new "My Templates" version of the MVC project template lives side-by-side with the previous ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 release (which you can see above it in the main project templates section of the dialog).  This allows you to safely create new projects and and use both the latest source version and the last official preview version on the same machine.

When you create a new project using this updated ASP.NET MVC Project template you'll by default get a project that looks like below:

Figure 2

This new project solution contains one Controller ("HomeController") under the "\Controllers" directory and two View templates ("About" and "Index") under the "\Views\Home" sub-directory.  Both view templates are based on a common master page for the site ("Site.master"), all of whose styles are defined within a "Site.css" file under the "\Content" directory.

When you run the application the built-in web-server will automatically start up and you'll see the site's "Home" content:

Figure 3

Clicking the "About us" tab will then display the "About" content:

Figure 4

The "HomeController" class in the project is responsible for handling both of the URLs above and has two action methods like below:

Figure 5

The default "Site.master" template looks for a "Title" value in the ViewData collection and uses it to render the <title> element of the HTML page.  The default "Index" view template looks for a "Message" value and uses it to render the home page's welcome message.  You can obviously go in and customize these files however you want.


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