dedazo's Journal: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC Available

From scottgu's blog on MSDN, word that the MVC framework is nearing RTM, with the latest release candidate now up for download. I'm gonna take a look later tonight.

The irony of this (for me, at least) is that one of the first things I did with .NET 1.1 back in the day was to write a crude MVC framework, which I later expanded and tweaked to the point where it actually got to be quite good, if I might say so myself. The problem is that it relied on a specialized ISAPI mapping library. So before this of course you could do MVC on ASP.NET, but it's nice to have a pre-built controller model, and have everything integrate into the VS2008 environment.

MVC is no panacea, but it does help a lot in many situations. It will be nice to have something on .NET that approaches some of the Python MVC controllers, like CherryPy, or the Really Simple One (TM) built into web.py (which I still think is the best one, assuming the app is rather trivial).

And hey, it's funny to see that scott uses the same color scheme in Visual Studio I use in vim. The man has taste!