During development of MVC 2 Preview 2 I was lucky enough (I’m on the QA team after all) to get to code and check in a feature that I wanted to MVC Futures. In all actuality it is two separate “features” that basically do the same thing. Okay, I think I might be blowing it out of proportion they are basically two new HTML helpers “Script” and “Css”
The Problem:
When you add links to to files (aka Scripts and CSS) the URLs are normally relative to the current page’s URL. This means that if you have “../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js” it means go up...
I am proud to announce that ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 has been released! So what are you waiting for? Go download it, its okay I’ll wait here… If you are running MVC 1.0 the good news is that just like Preview 1, Preview 2 can live side by side with it. However, as with previous preview releases, it is recommended that you uninstall Preview 1 prior to installing Preview 2. Currently there is no glamorous way of converting a MVC 1.0 project to a MVC 2 project but it is a pretty simple process and instructions can be found...