The Wait is Over: ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Posted

Ok, ok, it took us a little longer than we expected, but we finally got the ASP.NET 3.5 Extension Preview posted! This is the release with all the MVC goodness you have been hearing about as well as some very cool stuff  such as Dynamic Data controls which makes building data driven web applications a breeze, AJAX history support, ADO.NET Data Services (aka Astoria), the ADO.NET Entity Framework and updated ASP.NET support for Silverlight.

Download the bits - they work with VS 2008 and are side-by-side so they will not hork your system

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Here are a few links to get you going:

• ScottGu has an excellent 4 part tutorial on building an MVC based application...
• Phil Haack has some great info on his blog (he is the PM for MVC)
• Rob Conery has some great stuff as well.. he is the author of the HTML helpers in the MVCToolkit.zip that adds a lot of cool gravy to the MVC stuff.
• Oh, and now you can play with my MVC RSS sample
• David Ebbo is the dev for the Dynamic Data controls and the author of the Oryx for MVC support in the MVCToolkit.zip. 
• Nikhil Kothari has some very cool AJAX\MVC work
• Dave Reed has some good info on the ASP.NET Silverlight support, I am sure he will be updating it soon for this preview..
• Some great info on Astoria.. I mean the ADO.NET Data Services ;-)
• Bertrand Le Roy has some information on the AJAX support such as History.. I am sure he will be posting about this release soon as well.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  Brad, This is awesome.  Lots of people have been waiting for this.   If folks are interested in working on extra view engines and other extensions of the MVC Framework, they can participate in the MvcContrib open source project on CodePlex.  The url is http://mvccontrib.org

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is out. Get it here . This includes: MVC Dynamic Data AJAX browser

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  ScottGu and Brad Abrams have announced the release of the first preview of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions.

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  A couple of days later than expected, but the bits are available now as Brad Abrams announced a little

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  Thanks Brad!  We're all looking forward to it...

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is out. Get it here . This includes: MVC Dynamic Data AJAX browser

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  As promised, a "Preview" for the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions update is now available for download.

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  Thanks! Just out of interest, do the bits work with VWD express?

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  Is this release compatible with VS2008 Beta 2?  I haven't been able to get the RTM yet.

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  Oh, we have not tested it on VS2008 B2... It might work, but I would not bet on it...  Maybe this can give you an reason to update! And yes, this should work with VWD Express...

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2007
  Oooh, I am so tired, running after the Microsoft’s very fast train!!!

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  Fantastic news that this stuff is finally available for public consumption. Can't wait to see what people are going to do with the MVC stuff.

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  Good news!  You guys are coming out with new stuff all the time, I can't keep up.  I was happing with 1.1!

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  Check out the ASP.NET homepage "Latest Weblogs" section for info on the new ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP.

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  昨日はイベントに出ていたためかなり遅い情報となっていますが、 ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview がリリースされたようです。 ASP.NET 開発チームの方々が言及していますね。

• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  Yeah i made this. thx for the release :) Joule

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2007
  Please help me out in writing out an asp program it says that code written for displaying the output on the browser should be itself displayed in the browser instead of the output. please help me out and send the code at my mail id. my email id is: kaushik_chatterjee20@yahoomail.com

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2008
  Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here