Guys, I found that Juan Pablo Garcia from Southworks has published the MVC 5 templates (among others) that are compliant with StyleCop, if you are running this tool you might find his post useful, as I did:
http://blogs.southworks.net/jpgarcia/2008/09/01/visual-studio-2008-templates-compliant-with-microsoft-stylecop/

The ReadMe page for the latest version doesn't have any information about Preview 5 yet.

I see that Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Phil Haack have written
"Professional ASP.NET 3.5 MVC, 400 pages, Wrox, 978-470-38461-9
as per page 48 of the Wiley Winter 2009 Technology catalogue.
The publication date is shown as "in stores" October 20.

Since currently ASP.NET MVC is still in BETA (Preview Release 5), has the
publication of the Microsoft team's book been delayed? If not, to which
preview release does the publication pertain?

In the past, Wrox has printed "Public Beta Release" on the front covers of books like
"Introducing .Net" (2000). The cover photograph in the Wiley Winter 2009 Technology
catalogue shows no such designation.

Please comment, Rob Conery, and/or Scott Hanselman, and/or Phil Haack.

Thank you.

You can find more information about ASP.NET MVC (quickstarts, tutorials, screencasts etc...) on the ASP.NET MVC site site.
http://www.asp.net/mvc/ : crashing today (Saturday 2008-10-18, 10:39 EasternTime):
Server Error in '/' Application. ~~ Runtime Error

Unit Test Integration

Caveat Emptor: although "The ASP.NET MVC Project template ... provides a unit test dialog which allows you to select a unit test framework from a drop down", do not get your hopes too high if you're using VWD 2008 SP1. ASP.NET MVC does not work period with the orginal VWD 2008. Whether TDD and ASP.NET MVC can be easily used with VWD 2008 SP1 depends on a number of factors. Stay tuned.

BTW, the catch 22 here is that ASP.NET MVC is designed with enabling TDD in mind AFAIK.

Since novices getting their feet wet are likely to do so with the entry level product VWD 2008 SP1,
it would imo be a reasonable goal to have more harmony between ASP.NET MVC "official" Beta,
VWD 2008 SP1, and the family of TDD tools and utilities.

Hi,

I am using asp.net mvc preview 5 for one of my project. If i run my website from IIS 5 then it throws below error. But if i run using visual studio 2008 F5 then it works fine. If anyone faced this kind of problem please let me know how you fixed it

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:


Line 163: %>
Line 164: <%var Signin = Html.Resource("globalResources, Signin"); %>
Line 165: <%=Html.ActionLink(Signin.ToString(), "Login", "Account")%> |
Line 166: <%var register = Html.Resource("globalResources, register"); %>
Line 167: <%= Html.ActionLink(register.ToString(), "Register", "Account")%> |


Source File: d:\Technical Workshop\MuchSocial.com\Sourcecode\MuchSocial\MuchSocial\Views\Shared\UserSite.Master Line: 165

Stack Trace:


[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
ASP.views_shared_usersite_master.__Render__control1(HtmlTextWriter __w, Control parameterContainer) in d:\Technical Workshop\MuchSocial.com\Sourcecode\MuchSocial\MuchSocial\Views\Shared\UserSite.Master:165
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildrenInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ICollection children) +98
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer) +20
System.Web.UI.Control.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) +7
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControlInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter) +25
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter) +121
System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer) +

Regards,
Saravanan

A ScriptManager-lite for MVC:
http://www.codeplex.com/MvcScriptManager

Looking forward to the one from ASP.NET team.

I have been noticing an error with MVC RC. The MVC beta on accessing dbnull values wasnt throwing any exception. this is excellent because bindingsource on windows forms works likewise...i dont want to force values to the database when such fields should contain DBNULL. How do i solve this issue with the MVC Release candidate

I must say that I am a little dissapointed at the hate going around for using controls, and I am glad that you've added it to MVC Futures. Controls are great - as long as they don't have the ridiculous ViewState (or ControlState). For 2 great reasons - a page with controls is still valid XML, and the controls themselves are statically declared on the server side (as objects of the partial class).

Unfortunately, the latter advantage isn't currently used in MVC. What I mean is: these mvc controls could be used during data binding so that, instead of simply using the post values, they can be verified against declared controls to be validated as specifiable.

For example, if we have a user form with the following fields:

<mvc:TextBox name="FirstName" />
<mvc:TextBox name="LastName" />

When binding for the action:
class User
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public bool Administrator { get; set; }

}

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public ActionResult EditUser (User u)
{
}

In the current MVC model, we must specify [Bind(Include="FirstName,LastName")] - is there any plan to, in the future, automatically build an include list based on the controls in the view?

Hi guys, it would be nice if you just deploy the pdb file together with the release version of the System.Web.Mvc.dll. It would ease us alot in debugging mvc app.

Can you guys pleaaaaaaase make a dynamic help file for Visual Studio (2008)??

It would be great to see typesafe controls become part of the standard MVC package:
http://mvcimproved.codeplex.com/