Worth Noting ----- ASP.NET MVC Preview 4

I blogged earlier regarding MVC new release and I finally tried ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 today at a high level..... still need to dive deep in !

Here are few things worth noting

• ComponentController is removed and now you can use Html.RenderAction<> instead of Html.RenderComponent<> e.g. Html.RenderAction(x=>x.BlogList())
• Html.SubmitButton - is removed and went into a different namespace... Microsoft.Web.Mvc
• MembershipProvider is in built in this preview BUT only the FormsAuthentication is taken care of (and not the FormsAuthenticationAdministration class) so you get automatic creation of all user account classes (login, changepassword, register etc) but the admin functionality is still missing....hoopefully in the next preview we get those !

Here are few links to articles for ASP.NET MVC Preview 4:

• Guru Gu explains here
• Scott Hanselman explains some Ajax features
• Rob Conery gives some insight for ComponentController being deprecated
• Matt again gives some info for using RenderAction
• Some New Finds

***BTW TROY GOODE is releasing a new version of MVC Membership toolkit for Preview 4 tomorrow and next week with some enhancements below:

• 1st Release tomorrow will contain removal of the front-end controller & views (which are now part of the default MVC project template) as well as switching over to the new [Authorize] and [HandleError] attributes.
• The 2nd release next week will focus on improving the administrative interface for managing users using the new MS Ajax goodness.