A History of Asp.net MVC Framework.

MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a framework of Microsoft Asp.net for developing web application. this framework also better support of TDD (Test Driven Development).


Asp.Net MVC5

• MVC5 framework released on 17 Oct. 2013.
• Required .Net 4.5, 4.5.1 & Visual Studio 2013
• ASP.NET Scaffolding
• Authentication filters run prior to authorization filters in the MVC pipeline
• Bootstrap in built in the MVC template
• .NET Web API2

Asp.Net MVC4

• MVC4 framework released on August 15, 2012.
• Required .Net 4.0, 4.5 & with Visual Studio 2010SP1 & Visual Studio 2012
• Web API
• Mobile application template using jQuery Mobile
• Task support for Asynchronous Controllers
• Bundling and minification
• Windows Azure SDK Suppport

Asp.Net MVC3

• MVC3 framework released on January 13, 2011.
• Required .Net 4.0 and & Visual Studio 2010
• Razor view engine (.cshtml)
• Rich JavaScript support with unobtrusive JavaScript, jQuery Validation, and JSON binding
• Remote Validation, Compare Attribute in model
• Sessionless Controller
• ViewBag supported for passing data from controller to view
• Global Action Filters
• JSON Binding Support
• NuGet package Integration
• Intellisense support for Razor into Visual Studio.

Asp.net MVC2

• MVC2 framework released on march 2010.
• Required .net framework 3.5, 4.0 and visual studio 2008 or 2010
• Html halper ( lamda expression based html )
• Data Annotation Attribute supported
• Client-side validation
• Attributes base model validation on both client and server
• Asynchronous controllers

Asp.net MVC1

• MVC1 framework released on march 2009.
• Required .net framework 3.5 and visual studio 2008 & 2008sp1
• Webform Engine with MVC Pattern Architecture
• Html halper & Ajax halper
• Routing
• Unit Testing

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