ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Resources

Thanks to everyone who attended my ASP.NET MVC session with the New England ASP.NET Professionals Group last night.  Here are links and resources from the session:

Getting ASP.NET MVC 1.0

• Microsoft Web Platform Installer – Makes is very easy to install web tools, frameworks, and applications
  • Run it, choose “Web Platform”, “Frameworks and Runtimes”, then check MVC and click Install.
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Direct Download
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Source code w/unit tests
• MVC Contrib – Additional tools and frameworks for working with ASP.NET MVC

Learning ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Home – Start here.  Really.
  • Learning Resources – Tutorials, Videos, Samples
• NerdDinner 1.0 – Sample MVC Application
  • 185-page walkthrough by Scott Guthrie – I recommend taking the time to work through this
• ASP.NET MVC Training Kit
• ASP.NET MVC Forums
• All Content Tagged “ASP.NET MVC” on Channel 9
• Sessions from PDC08
• Sessions from Mix
  • Rachel Appel on “Choosing Between ASP.NET WebForms & MVC”
• Online ASP.NET MVC Documentation

Updates on ASP.NET MVC

• Phil Haack’s Blog
  • Posts tagged aspnetmvc
• Scott Guthrie’s Blog
  • Announcing ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview – Version 2 is in early preview, but can be downloaded for evaluation (and installs side-by-side with 1.0)
• Stephen Walther’s Blog
• Scott Hanselman’s Blog
• List of sites using ASP.NET MVC (scroll to the bottom)

Slides and Content

I pulled some content from my MVC talk on the last Northeast MSDN Roadshow session and the materials are on our Code Gallery (as “20,000 Leagues under the MVC”. )

Boston .NET MVC Discussion – 8/26

Bob Goodearl is leading a series of discussions on ASP.NET MVC through the Boston .NET User Group, and the next one will be on Wednesday, August 26th from 6:00-7:30 at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA.  All are welcome.

-Chris