what features do you want in asp.net mvc 3?

Question

Hi Guys, Just rounding up what features should be made available for the next release of ASP.net MVC 3. There is no news on the next version. But I really want opinion for people using ASP.net MVC to make feature judgments. As for starters I would like following features to be included

1. Support of Visual Designers. Currently HTMl helper tags are not rendered correctly so better designer would give WYSIWYG development.
2. Support common HTML widgets like Calendar, Popup, DataGrid etc.
3. A wizard driven template for strongly typed views to generate more complex views using wide range of html helpers.
4. A templating language like OGNL, JSTL as a standard feature.

Any more ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is a site showing the roadmap for ASP.net MVC 3 and it looks good. http://aspnet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Road%20Map

Answer 2

Just up new features on ASP.net MVC 3 preview release

** Razor View Engine which ScottGu wrote about recently. Note that for Preview 1, we only support the C# version (CSHTML). IN later previews, we will add support for the VB.NET version (VBHTML). Also, Intellisense support for Razor syntax in Visual Studio 2010 will be released later. * Dependency Injection hooks using service locator interface. Brad Wilson should have a few blog posts on this over the next few days. * Support for .NET 4 Data Annotation and Validation attributes. * Add View dialog support for multiple view engines including custom view engines. * Global Action Filters*

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