ChrisNTR

Recently Scott Guthrie mentioned what the ASP.NET MVC Road-map looked like and more importantly what features will be included in a special MIX 08 preview - which as you can guess - will be released around MIX 08, which is happening in the next few weeks in Las Vegas. Sadly, I cannot make the event; however, the preview will be available for everyone to download and use so that’s pretty good.

A few of the changes to the framework that stick out for me are the updated changes routing rules, which have always seemed a bit limiting (without having to customise it too much) so this will be a welcome addition. Something else which is nice to see is the removal of [ControllerAction] before the action in the controller to explicitly announce it as action method which will help with making the controller code look a little bit cleaner.

With all these ‘preview’ changes, I feel that this shows that the ASP.NET MVC team (Rob Conery, Phil Haack, etc) are really listening and are helping to build the best MVC framework they can. The framework feels very open-source to me. Although you can’t manually patch the core code (though you will be able to patch your own build soon), the framework will allow complete customisation to fit your needs as well as the MVC Contrib providing many different extensions to add to it.

I’m excited to see where this goes because I think it can only get better!