Tuesday, April 15, 2014

History of Asp.Net MVC framework

Asp.Net MVC is a new Framework built on the top of Microsoft .Net Framework to develop web application. This framework implements the MVC pattern which helps to provides separation of code and also provide better support for test-driven development (TDD).
Asp.Net MVC is a lightweight and highly testable open source framework for building highly scalable and well designed web applications. Here is the list of released version history of ASP.NET MVC Framework with theirs features.

Asp.Net MVC1

  1. Released on Mar 13, 2009
  2. Runs on .Net 3.5 and with Visual Studio 2008 & Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  3. MVC Pattern architecture with WebForm Engine
  4. Html Helpers
  5. Ajax helpers
  6. Routing
  7. Unit Testing

Asp.Net MVC2

  1. Released on Mar 10, 2010
  2. Runs on .Net 3.5, 4.0 and with Visual Studio 2008 & 2010
  3. Strongly typed HTML helpers means lambda expression based Html Helpers
  4. Templated Helpers
  5. Support for Data Annotations Attribute
  6. Client-side validation
  7. UI helpers with automatic scaffolding & customizable templates
  8. Attribute-based model validation on both client and server
  9. Overriding the HTTP Method Verb including GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE
  10. Areas for partitioning a large applications into modules
  11. Asynchronous controllers

Asp.Net MVC3

  1. Released on Jan 13, 2011
  2. Runs on .Net 4.0 and with Visual Studio 2010
  3. The Razor view engine
  4. Improved Support for Data Annotations
  5. Remote Validation
  6. Compare Attribute
  7. Sessionless Controller
  8. Child Action Output Caching
  9. Dependency Resolver
  10. Entity Framework Code First support
  11. Partial-page output caching
  12. ViewBag dynamic property for passing data from controller to view
  13. Global Action Filters
  14. Better JavaScript support with unobtrusive JavaScript, jQuery Validation, and JSON binding
  15. Use of NuGet to deliver software and manage dependencies throughout the platform
  16. Good Intellisense support for Razor into Visual Studio

Asp.Net MVC4

  1. Released on Aug 15, 2012
  2. Runs on .Net 4.0, 4.5 and with Visual Studio 2010SP1 & Visual Studio 2012
  3. ASP.NET Web API
  4. Enhancements to default project templates
  5. Mobile project template using jQuery Mobile
  6. Display Modes
  7. Task support for Asynchronous Controllers
  8. Bundling and minification
  9. Support for the Windows Azure SDK

Asp.Net MVC5

  1. Released on 17 October 2013
  2. Runs on .Net 4.5, 4.5.1 and with Visual Studio 2013
  3. One Asp.Net
  4. Asp.Net Identity
  5. ASP.NET Scaffolding
  6. Authentication filters - run prior to authorization filters in the ASP.NET MVC pipeline
  7. Bootstrap in the MVC template
  8. ASP.NET Web API2

Monday, April 14, 2014

Version history of ASP.NET

ASP.NET Version History---Features Detail
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4.5.1
4.5.1 and Visual Studio 2013
  1. One ASP.NET
  2. ASP.NET Scaffolding
  3. ASP.NET Identity
     
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4.5
4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
  1. Strongly Typed Data Controls
  2. Model Binding
  3. Unobtrusive Validation
  4. Bundling and Minification
  5. Async Support
  6. Support for asynchronous modules and handlers
  7. Friendly URL
  8. HTML5 Features enhancements
  9. Support for WebSocket protocol
  10. oAuth Support
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4.0
4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
  1. Introduced ClientIdMode property for Server Control
  2. Routing
  3. Introduced Meta tags MetaKeyword and MetaDescription
  4. Chart Control
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3.5
3.5 and Visual Studio 2008
  1. Integrated ASP.NET AJAX
  2. Support LINQ
  3. New Data controls LINQ DataSource, ListView and DataPager
  4. Dynamic Data
  5. Multi-targeting Framework Support
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2.0
2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
  1. New Data controls GridView, FormView and DetailsView
  2. DataSource controls SQLDataSource, Object DataSource, AccessDataSource, XMLDataSource and SiteMapDataSource
  3. Navigation controls
  4. Master pages
  5. Cross Page Postbacks
  6. Validation Groups
  7. Themes
  8. Skins
  9. Login controls
  10. Role Management
  11. Profiles
  12. Membership Service
  13. Localization and Globalization
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1.1
1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003
  1. ASP.NET Mobile controls
  2. Built-in support for ODBC and databases
  3. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support
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1.0
1.0 and Visual Studio .NET
  1. Support for Object-oriented Web application development
  2. Use of DLL class libraries