ScottGu just posted that there’s an upcoming preview 4 release of the ASP.NET MVC framework. What I immediately noticed, is that there are actually some community concepts being integrated in the framework, yay! And what’s even cooler: 2 of these new features are things that I’ve already contributed to the community (the fact that it these are included in the MVC framework now could be coincidence, though…).
- One of the things I noticed is that there’s a new ActionFilterAttribute that can handle errors. Back in April, Troy posted something similar on his blog.
- Another thing is the new outputcache actionfilterattribute, on which I recently posted an implementation that works, feature-wise, exactly the same as the one Scott talks about. Nice!
- Last but not least, there’s a new membership feature, similar to the MvcMembership starter kit Troy and I implemented. Adding an attribute which requires authentication? Check! Adding an attribute which allows authorization? Check! Base controller classes for registration, login, password retrieval, … Check!
Thank you, ASP.NET MVC team! This preview 4 release seems like a great step in the evolution of the ASP.NET MVC framework. Thumbs up!