The ASP. NET team just released the fifth preview version of ASP. net mvc yesterday. Like previous versions, preview 5 is also a temporary and transitional version. Please download it here.You must upgrade Visual Studio 2008 to SP1 RTM before use.
According to haacked, this version is released to collect more suggestions and feedback. Therefore, to release the Coming beta version, please remember your comments in codeplex after the experience. It is very likely that your thoughts will be included in the next version! Such as naming and bug.
Next, let's take a look at some improvements in preview 5. Mainly include:
The follwing issues are addressed in this release (see the release notes for more detail on any changes)
- HTML helpers need to look into modelstate to get attempted Value
- Add a convenience overload for HTML. actionlink
- Need friendly exception for updatemodel type conversion errors.
- Updatemodel needs to report a message when a property setter throws an exception
This version has the following improvements:
- Htmlhelper needs to get the value in viewdata. modelstate
- Html. actionlink adds a convenient overload method
- A friendly error message is required when an exception is thrown during updatemodel type conversion.
- Updatemodel requires information when setting properties to throw an exception
Detailed improvements are described in release notes and will be available later :)