Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
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by Scott Guthrie
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Other Improvements in the RC

Below is a partial list of other nice improvements in today’s RC:

Improved "New Project" Dialog Box:

When you create an ASP.NET MVC 3 Project you are presented with a dialog like below:

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The above dialog is now extensible, and you can add additional starter templates, view engines, and unit test project frameworks to it.  We’ll be releasing additional starter templates over time (that will show up in the list) to make it even easier to get up and running on new projects.

Scaffolding Improvements

A number of small, but nice, improvements have been made to the default ASP.NET MVC scaffold templates.  The templates now do a better job of identifying ID/Primary Key properties on models, and handle them appropriately (for example: they now create appropriate links for edit/delete/etc).  The Create/Edit scaffolds also now use Html.EditorFor() by default instead of Html.TextBoxFor() – which makes it easier for you to customize/tweak how your models are displayed.

Add-View Dialog Box Improvements

When you use the Add->View dialog box to add a view that is strongly-typed, the Add View dialog box now filters out more non-applicable types and is sorted/organized in a way that makes it easier to find what you are looking for.

Session-less Controller Support

You can now indicate whether you want a Controller class to use session-state – and if so whether you want it to be read/write or readonly. 

Razor Model Dynamic By Default

If you do not specify a @model directive within your Razor views, the “Model” property on the page will now default to dynamic instead of object.  This enables you to perform late-binding against the model type.  Previously you had to add a ‘@model dynamic” to the top of the file to do this.

New Overloads for Html.LabelFor() and Html.LabelForModel()

New method overloads have been added for the LabelFor() and LabelForModel() helper methods that enable you to optionally specify or override the label text.


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Title: Help with output catching   
Name: Victor D
Date: 2010-12-02 6:53:47 PM
Comment:
Hello, I'm implementing the output catching but I need to pass a parameter and with the code in this page (passing a category parameter) didn't work. Always render the same page even if I change the parameter value
Title: MVC3   
Name: Ansal
Date: 2010-11-25 12:02:11 AM
Comment:
useful One

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