ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Preview Released

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• thanks scott.
  i love it :X
  

• yeah!MVC i'm waiting for u
  

• Edward, I'm posting this very minute a 40 minute video showing how to make a sample project. We shall soon flood you with samples. ;)
  

• Yeah! Thanks Scott ...
  

• I develop on vista buisness and I would like to use IIS7 instead of the webserver with visual studio is there some trick to getting the a mvc website to work with IIS7? I tired mapping all requests to the asp.net isapi module and that did not seem to do the trick. I can get the main page by touching the default.aspx file as that is mapped to home/index but nothing else.
  
  Thanks, Mike!
  

• Great, I have installed it, and migrating my site from website to MVC.
  

• Scott, what does "first CTP Preview" mean pre-pre-Alpha 2 ?
  When can we expect the ASP.net Extention go rtm?
  All the best !
  

• I have been waiting this for too long.
  
  I can do something like Rails now within ASP.NET!
  

• One hour too late for me... Luckily, I went to sleep, but today is new day...
  
  Congratulations!
  

• Great!
  
  Is this a replacement for the ASP.NET Futures?
  
  Thanks,
  Mikael Söderström
  

• Scott & Scott and the rest of the team, thanks for all your efforts! This is an exciting time to be a .Net developer and it's contributions like these that are setting the bar very high.
  

• for some reason during install (on vista32) I get a 'webdesigner.exe has stopped working' error. The installer also notes (quite aptly) that "The installation is taking longer than expected"....Why is this happening?
  
  thanks!
  

• Bonzer!
  
  Christmas has come early (even if a few days late :D)
  
  Excellent work from you and your team Scott
  
  David
  

• Great stuff Scott thanks for that!
  

• 
  Awesome, Do we need to uninstall "ASP.NET Futures July 2007" first?
  
  Thanks
  

• Can MVC Framework use in .Net 2.0??
  

• Hello Scott,
  
  People that already deep know the HTTP pipeline and Page life cycle will have benefits using the MVC pattern?
  
  Thanks
  

• Hoorah! I've got plenty of time today to play with it thankfully :-)
  
  Well done everyone that made this possible.
  

• Top Banana! Thanks Scott (and of course your team!)
  

• Great! Again something new to play with...
  
  Can your team now perhaps take a vacation for, let's say, 1 year, so I can work my way through all this new material that has been coming out these last months? ;-)
  

• Thanks for the great links Scott!
  
  This will help a lot, gonna try it right away.
  
  

• Thanks scott. Great Work :)
  

• Scott,
  
  I installed 3.5 Extension and looking for MVC Application Template but I couldn't find it. I have MVS 2005 and MVS 2008 Express installed but i couldn't find it in template also.
  
  Can you please help me?
  
  Thanks
  

• Hey Now Scott,
  Those Quick Start Samples look good.
  Thx 4 the info,
  Catto
  

• If we download the 3.5 extensions, will we still be able to create 3.5 projects in Visual Studio without the CTP runtime functionality? If so, how would this be done (or should we just download to a VM/sandbox machine)? Thanks!
  

• Look like not possible to use MVC with VS2005.
  

• Installation fails.
  I'm using VS2008 RTM, XP Pro SP2 running in Virtual PC 2007.
  
  "Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close"
  
  This are the last 3 lines on the log file:
  
  Process exited with code 1603
  Status of package 'ADO.NET Entity Framework 1.0 (Pre-Release Version)' after install is 'InstallSucceeded'
  Status of package 'ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP' after install is 'InstallFailed'
  
  Any help?
  
  Thanks
  

• wow to say the least
  

• how will ASP.NET 3.5 be deployed finally? like a SP?
  

• I'm disappointed its not open sources. Is there any plans to have it open sources?
  

• Great job to the ASP.Net team!
  This release is a great step forward for all of us.
  

• I looking for MVC for along time. Thank!!
  

• Hi Mike,
  
  >>>>>>> I develop on vista buisness and I would like to use IIS7 instead of the webserver with visual studio is there some trick to getting the a mvc website to work with IIS7? I tired mapping all requests to the asp.net isapi module and that did not seem to do the trick. I can get the main page by touching the default.aspx file as that is mapped to home/index but nothing else.
  
  Can you make sure you are running that application in "integrated pipeline mode" as opposed to the default (ASP.NET back compat)? That should do the trick I believe (if not send me email - scottgu@microsoft.com).
  
  Thanks,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Adrian,
  
  >>>>>>>>> Scott, what does "first CTP Preview" mean pre-pre-Alpha 2 ? When can we expect the ASP.net Extention go rtm?
  
  First CTP basically means it is the first time we've shipped the bits publically. It is probably somewhere after an alpha, although not quite at a beta1 state. Our hope is for the final RTM version the first half of next year.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Vijay,
  
  You can find a pagedlist implementation that you can download here: http://blog.wekeroad.com/2007/12/10/aspnet-mvc-pagedlistt/
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Cliff,
  
  >>>>>>> If we download the 3.5 extensions, will we still be able to create 3.5 projects in Visual Studio without the CTP runtime functionality? If so, how would this be done (or should we just download to a VM/sandbox machine)? Thanks!
  
  Yes - no problem with creating standard 3.5 projects with the CTP installed. The default project templates in VS 2008 will still use vanilla .NET 3.5 You'll own use the CTP bits if you create one using the new CTP specific project templates.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Scott
  

• I have observed in the past that there were many upgradation issues especially when moving from CTP/BETA to RTM. It would be great to have a hassle free upgrade path from the CTP to the RTM of the framework. That if you can ensure, will drive a lot more in the community to play around with the CTP.
  

• Any plans on making it open source?
  

• I'm disapointed there is no support for Vista 64 using ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools Dec 07 CTP. Whats the point of having a 64 build of ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 if the tools are unsupported?
  

• Hi Scott,
  I have started to migrate my site to MVC.
  I have two questions want to ask.
  The code below copy from MVCToolkit.
  <a href="">Show all items
  There is no intellisence and tooltip for the code in when set it to href attribute.
  Another question.
  As you mentioned. We can add ASP.NET control like literal control in view page, and set value for it in aspx.cs file.
  I.e.
  public partial class Index : ViewPage
  {
  public void Page_Load()
  {
  
  }
  }
  
  No intellisence for the literal control I added to the aspx file.
  
  My VS is 2008 RTM with this new CTP preview.
  

• Looking forward to be playing around with the CTP :)
  

• Hi Ricardo,
  
  >>>>>>> Installation fails. I'm using VS2008 RTM, XP Pro SP2 running in Virtual PC 2007. "Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close"
  
  If you can send me email (scottgu@microsoft.com) I can have someone on the team take a look and figure out what is wrong.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Ion,
  
  >>>>>>> how will ASP.NET 3.5 be deployed finally? like a SP?
  
  We are still finalizing how we'll ship the features in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions release. I'll blog about the plan once it is closed.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Jimmy,
  
  >>>>>>> I'm disappointed its not open sources. Is there any plans to have it open sources?
  
  We will ship the source code to the MVC Framework. We won't be taking back source contributions, though, to the core framework since it will ship as part of the .NET Framework. There will, though, be a toolkit project on top that you can contribute code to.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Fisher,
  
  >>>>>>> I have started to migrate my site to MVC.
  
  >>>>>>> I have two questions want to ask.
  
  >>>>>>> The code below copy from MVCToolkit.
  
  >>>>>>> <a href="">Show all items
  
  I'd recommend re-writing the code above to This is a little cleaner. You'll also get full intellisense for this.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Scott
  

• Hi Fisher,
  
  >>>> Regarding the issue with controls not getting intellisense in MVC code-behind pages:
  
  There is an issue with the default file templates that you use to create view pages with the MVC project. They unfortunately by default don't generate the .designer.cs/.vb files that are used by the code-behind to get intellisense for controls - which is why you are running into the issue you are seeing.
  The good news is that this is easy to fix. Just select your file in the solution explorer, right click, and choose the "Convert to Web Application" context menu option. This will generate the .designer file for you. From that point on, all changes you make to the .aspx file will be reflected in the code behind, and you'll be able to code directly against your literal control.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Scott
  

• ----------------------------
  I'd recommend re-writing the code above to This is a little cleaner. You'll also get full intellisense for this.
  
  Hope this helps,
  -----------------------------------
  Hi Scott,
  Reference the article about form post. the element like this:
  
  <form action="" method="post">
  
  I tried it at my site. The code in here has no intellisence and tooltip. It seems I can’t get intellisence for the part when it’s inside of the quotation mark. Do you mean all the HTML code needs to be re-written to Html helper format to get the intellisence support?
  

• Hi Travis,
  
  >>>>>>>> I tried it at my site. The code in here has no intellisence and tooltip. It seems I can’t get intellisence for the part when it’s inside of the quotation mark. Do you mean all the HTML code needs to be re-written to Html helper format to get the intellisence support?
  
  It looks like we have an issue with intellisense inside quote values right now. I've forwarded this to the VS team to look at and get fixed.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Scott
  

• Can't wait to play around with this! Great work from you and your team!
  

• I'm having an issue where I don't get 'add new items' - the window is empty?
  
  (Runnning Vista)
  

• Hi Scott
  
  I would like to ask your permission to republish all your blogs on my website called Worldofasp.net
  Is that Ok with you?
  
  And also, could you be so kind to add a link to my website (Worldofasp.net)
  I just started this website and your support can help me a lot to grow this community
  
  Thanks and have a good day Scott :)
  
  

• Scott - Thanks for the comments, especially this one:
  
  >> The good news is that this is easy to fix. Just select your file in the solution explorer, right click, and choose the "Convert to Web Application" context menu option. This will generate the .designer file for you. From that point on, all changes you make to the .aspx file will be reflected in the code behind, and you'll be able to code directly against your literal control.
  
  Note that without doing this you can't reference any of the controls in the .aspx file while in the code behind file. A MAJOR headache if trying to follow your first MVC tutorial where you go into the code behind file and assign the categoryList.DataSource. You might want to make a note on that tutorial for us until this gets fixed.
  
  For others out there, this will fix the "does not exist in the current context" bug.
  

• Hi Scott,
  I've installed the pre-req's (VWD 2008 Express, .net 3.5 Framework, ADO.net Entity Framework 1.0 and the ASP .net extensions) however when creating a new website I don't seem to get the "ASP.NET MVC Web Application" template to in the new web site dialog box? Is there anything else that I need to do?
  Thanks,
  James
  

• Thanks! Well, one things for sure. I am like waaayyy!!! behind the times. In fact, I was wondering about this yesterday, i.e., when I would next see the latest ASP.Net and here it is. Time to get busy, isn't it?
  

• Hello, does this package work with WWD 2008 express edition?
  

• Please pass alongmy thanks to the team for getting this out there. Sounds like they worked pretty hard to get this out over the weekend.
  

• Scott -
  Could you please let us know when the issue with intellisense inside quote values is going to be fixed?
  
  Also,
  How do we pass the viewdata to the master page?
  

• Can we expect this week source servers up and running?
  

• Scott,
  I am having a hard time passing a json object to the controller. My parameter is nothing (VB) when I hit the controller action.
  
  Are there any reasons JSON can't be passed?
  

• Nice nice, love this blog Scott.
  
  All thou I have one question.
  
  When will we see more effectivity in .net and the clr? Take the swedish OMX as an example, they atm need a system that can handle 100000 transaktions/second, for that they tried out .net but it was simply not effective enought. When will we see an improvement?
  

• Hi Scott,
  Any chance of having the entire ASP.NET MVC series that you have done as a download able PDF?
  

• What's the status of this project? When would it be ready for prime time? I know this is only a CTP, but when could we have a release or a GoLive License?
  

• Hi Scott,
  
  Do you or does anyone else have a working example of web parts/web part zones working inside an update panel in both IE and Firefox? (i.e. drag/drop; browse/design mode without postbacks). I keep seeing the same thing about 3.5 and web parts "improved support for update panels". What EXACTLY does this mean?
  
  Thank you.
  

• Hello Scott,
  Any Idea when is the final release for the MVC framework, as we will be working next days with an MVC framework so the range of the release date would be very helpful
  Thanks in advance.
  

• Hi Scott,
  
  First of all, your blog is just great. Thanks for the good work in keeping all of us up to date on the latest. For the past 48 hours I've been searching for an answer to a problem I am having with webparts. It seems many people have experienced the same problem, however I have not found a complete answer to it.
  
  Is there a way to run webparts inside an updatepanel AND at the same time make it work with Firefox? I can use .Net 2.0 and use webparts with updatepanels using my own Web.UI.WebParts class but webparts wont work with Firefox. Also I can use .NET 3.5 and webparts will work fine with updatepanels but will not work with Firefox.
  
  In the other hand, I can use previews AJAX versions i.e. Microsoft.Web.Preview.dll and webparts will work fine in Firefox. However, updatepanels will not.
  
  Conclusion; what do I need to do in order to have both things working together? I have tried using .NET 3.5 that uses System.Web.Extensions/Design dlls 3.6 which fixes the updatepanel problem and also tagmapping to Microsoft.Web.Preview.dll but that didn't work.
  
  So far or I overcome the updatepanel problem or the firefox compatibility but not both :(.
  
  Any feedback on this will be gladly appreciated.
  
  Best regards,
  
  Alex
  

• Hi,
  
  nice change... after creating the linq, that allows the user to access the database directly from UI, now you're fixing the job... :)
  
  but what will prevent the user from doing just that, access the database from UI?
  
  

• The default directory structure of an ASP.NET MVC Application has 3 top-level directories:
  /Controllers
  /Models
  /Views
  How can I change this arrangement and use my own directory structure in ASP.Net MVC framework?