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ASP.NET MVC 3 - What features do you want to see?

Asked 2010-03-25T18:47:40.820
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I know a bunch of people that are really enjoying the improvements that ASP.NET MVC 2 made over the first release. I have just started to migrate our MVC 1 project over and so far areas has totally cleaned up the subfolder mess we had in our large scale application. As I dive deeper into all the improvements and changes that were made I still keep thinking to myself man it would be nice if they had x in this release. For instance, I would love it if they had some sort of dependency injection built in instead of having to use third party solutions.

My real question is now that ASP.NET MVC 2 is out in the wild, what features do want/wish the team had implemented and hope they will implement for ASP.NET MVC 3?

EDIT

Looks like dependency injection is built in for the first preview release of ASP.NET MVC 3! I like the features added so far. ASP.NET 3 preview one is out!

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I really wish they'd add the following:

  1. Spark-style conditionals and loops using html tag attributes.
  2. Updated: Visible project property to toggle compile-time validation of views.
  3. Something to verify/validate that my routes are correct.
  4. Membership provider solution that uses int instead of Guid for identification and allows mapping profile fields to a custom table rather than the generic but slow default.
  5. Lambda-based helpers to avoid magic strings (currently in MvcFutures)
  6. T4MVC template to auto-generate strongly typed helpers
  7. Project wizards or templates to get a template that is already setup for IoC and similar concerns, preferably with a selection dialog to choose which framework to use for IoC, unit testing, etc.
  8. Additional attributes (both filters and validation).

Hmmm, that's all I can think of right now :)

answered 2010-03-25T19:27:13.533
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I'd like to see built-in support for things like IronRuby

answered 2010-03-26T13:09:37.100

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