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ASP.NET MVC Frameworks
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	5.1 / January 17, 2014
Repository	github.com/aspnet/AspNetWebStack ;
Written in	C#, VB.NET
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	.NET Framework, Mono
Type	Web application framework
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	www.asp.net/mvc/

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The ASP.NET MVC is an open source web application framework that implements the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern.

Background

Based on ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC allows software developers to build a web application as a composition of three roles: Model, View and Controller.

A model represents the state of a particular aspect of the application. A controller handles interactions and updates the model to reflect a change in state of the application, and then passes information to the view. A view accepts necessary information from the controller and renders a user interface to display that information.^[2]

In April 2009, the ASP.NET MVC source code was released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).^[3]

ASP.NET MVC framework is a lightweight, highly testable presentation framework that is integrated with existing ASP.NET features. Some of these integrated features are master pages and membership-based authentication. The MVC framework is defined in the System.Web.Mvc assembly.^[4]

The ASP.NET MVC Framework couples the models, views, and controllers using interface-based contracts, thereby allowing each component to be easily tested independently.

Apache License 2.0 release

In March 2012, Scott Guthrie announced on his blog that Microsoft had released part of their web stack (including ASP.NET MVC, Razor and Web API) under an open source license (Apache License 2.0).^[5]

Guthrie wrote that "Doing so will enable a more open development model where everyone in the community will be able to engage and provide feedback on code checkins, bug-fixes, new feature development, and build and test the products on a daily basis using the most up-to-date version of the source code and tests. ".

The source code now resides on CodePlex. ASP.NET Web Forms was not included in this initiative for various reasons.^[6]

Release history

Release history
Date	Version
10 December 2007	ASP.NET MVC CTP
13 March 2009	ASP.NET MVC 1.0^[7]
16 December 2009	ASP.NET MVC 2 RC^[8]
4 February 2010	ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2^[9]
10 March 2010	ASP.NET MVC 2^[10]
6 October 2010	ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta^[11]
9 November 2010	ASP.NET MVC 3 RC^[11]
10 December 2010	ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2^[12]
13 January 2011	ASP.NET MVC 3^[13]
20 September 2011	ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview^[14]
15 February 2012	ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta^[15]
31 May 2012	ASP.NET MVC 4 RC^[16]
15 August 2012	ASP.NET MVC 4^[17]
30 May 2013	ASP.NET MVC 4 4.0.30506.0 ^[18]
26 June 2013	ASP.NET MVC 5 Preview ^[19]
23 August 2013	ASP.NET MVC 5 RC 1^[20]
17 October 2013	ASP.NET MVC 5^[20]
17 January 2014	ASP.NET MVC 5.1^[20]
10 February 2014	ASP.NET MVC 5.1.1^[20]
4 April 2014	ASP.NET MVC 5.1.2^[20]

View engines

The view engines used in the ASP.NET MVC 3 and MVC 4 Frameworks are the Razor View Engine and the Web Forms view engine. Both view engines are part of the MVC 3 framework. By default, the view engine in the MVC framework uses Razor .cshtml and .vbhtml, or Web Forms .aspx pages to design the layout of the user interface pages onto which the data is composed. However, different view engines can be used.^[21] Additionally, rather than the default ASP.NET Web Forms postback model, any interactions are routed to the controllers using the ASP.NET Routing mechanism. Views can be mapped to REST-friendly URLs.^[2]

Other view engines:-

The MVCContrib library contains 8 alternate view engines. Brail, NDjango, NHaml, NVelocity, SharpTiles, Spark, StringTemplate and XSLT.
The StringTemplate View Engine utilizes a .NET port of the popular Java Templating engine, StringTemplate.
Spark is a view engine for the ASP.NET MVC (and the Castle Project MonoRail) frameworks.
NDjango is a port of the popular Django templating engine to .NET. It is written in F# and comes with Visual Studio extension including full Intellisense support
Naked Objects MVC - an implementation of the naked objects pattern using ASP.NET MVC
Razor is a view-engine developed by Microsoft and released with MVC 3 that is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach.

References

^ Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB)
^ ^a ^b Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC Framework". Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Source Released". Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ ASP.NET MVC
^ Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source". Retrieved 29 March 2012. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Scott Hanselman. "ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions". Retrieved 29 March 2012. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=144444
^ http://haacked.com/archive/2009/12/16/aspnetmvc-2-rc.aspx
^ http://haacked.com/archive/2010/02/04/aspnetmvc2-rc2.aspx
^ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C9BA1FE1-3BA8-439A-9E21-DEF90A8615A9&displaylang=en
^ ^a ^b http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc3-release-notes
^ http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/10/announcing-asp-net-mvc-3-release-candidate-2.aspx
^ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d2928bc1-f48c-4e95-a064-2a455a22c8f6&displaylang=en
^ http://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ASP.NET%20MVC%204%20RoadMap
^ http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes
^ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/05/31/new-features-for-web-development-in-visual-studio-2012-rc.aspx
^ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/08/15/visual-studio-2012-rtw.aspx
^ http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/aspnet-and-web-tools-20122-release-notes-rtw
^ http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/release-notes#TOC10
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc
^ "Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screencast Tutorials". Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Commercial and non-commercial projects

ASP.NET MVC Project Awesome a rich set of helpers for building interactive Ajax-enabled Web applications.
ASP.NET MVC SiteMap Provider SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework.
XSitemap is a free library for simple generation sitemaps.
ASP.NET MVC Controls Toolkit A complete set of server controls for ASP.NET MVC.
jQuery ASP.NET MVC Controls A pack of ASP.NET MVC compatible controls based on jQuery and jqGrid
Dev Magic Fake A Framework to TDD Test Driven Development and simulate the underline layers of the MVC projects without writing code
ASP.NET MVC4 Project An ongoing project to locate Blood Donors using online maps.
Data Moving Plug-in Advanced controls for ASP.NET MVC built on top of the Mvc Controls toolkit.

Sample projects

EFMVC - ASP.NET MVC 3 and Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Demo web app using ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM, Razor, EF Code First and Autofac
ProDinner - ASP.NET MVC Entity Framework 4 Code First DDD jQuery Sample App shows the usage of DDD, Entity Framework 4 code first and jQuery in ASP.NET MVC, it also has a multi-language UI (using resource files) and a very rich and responsive UI
Mvc Music Store a sample store which sells albums online, demonstrating ASP.NET MVC's productivity features and data access via Entity Framework 4.
NerdDinner shows the very basics of ASP.NET MVC also the usage of OpenID, Bing Maps, Twitter Integration etc.
Bing Maps Application in ASP.NET MVC 4 A beginners tutorial on using Bing Mapping in ASP.NET, exploring MVC features to handle mobile and desktop views from a single application - MSDN Article.

External links

[1] Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB)

[aspnetmvc-2] Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC Framework". Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[opensource-3] Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Source Released". Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[4] ASP.NET MVC

[opensource1-5] Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source". Retrieved 29 March 2012. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[op-6] Scott Hanselman. "ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions". Retrieved 29 March 2012. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[7] ttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=144444

[8] ttp://haacked.com/archive/2009/12/16/aspnetmvc-2-rc.aspx

[9] ttp://haacked.com/archive/2010/02/04/aspnetmvc2-rc2.aspx

[10] ttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C9BA1FE1-3BA8-439A-9E21-DEF90A8615A9&displaylang=en

[asp.net-11] ttp://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc3-release-notes

[12] ttp://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/10/announcing-asp-net-mvc-3-release-candidate-2.aspx

[13] ttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d2928bc1-f48c-4e95-a064-2a455a22c8f6&displaylang=en

[14] ttp://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ASP.NET%20MVC%204%20RoadMap

[15] ttp://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes

[16] ttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/05/31/new-features-for-web-development-in-visual-studio-2012-rc.aspx

[17] ttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/08/15/visual-studio-2012-rtw.aspx

[18] ttp://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/aspnet-and-web-tools-20122-release-notes-rtw

[19] ttp://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/release-notes#TOC10

[nuget.org-20] ttp://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc

[21] "Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Screencast Tutorials". Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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 * [http://awesome.codeplex.com ASP.NET MVC Project Awesome] a rich set of helpers for building interactive Ajax-enabled Web applications.
 * [https://github.com/maartenba/MvcSiteMapProvider ASP.NET MVC SiteMap Provider] SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework.
+* [http://www.nuget.org/packages/xsitemap XSitemap] is a free library for simple generation sitemaps.
 * [http://mvccontrolstoolkit.codeplex.com/ ASP.NET MVC Controls Toolkit] A complete set of server controls for ASP.NET MVC.
 * [http://mvcjquerycontrols.codeplex.com/ jQuery ASP.NET MVC Controls] A pack of ASP.NET MVC compatible controls based on [[jQuery]] and jqGrid

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