ASP.NET MVC
The ASP.NET MVC is a discontinued web application framework developed by Microsoft, which implements the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web Forms component which is proprietary.
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
---|---|
Final release | 5.2.7
/ 28 November 2018[1] |
Preview release | 6.0.0-rc2
/ 17 May 2016[2] |
Repository | |
Written in | C#, VB.NET[3] |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | .NET Framework, Mono |
Type | Web application framework |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | dotnet |
ASP.NET Core has since been released, which unified ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (a platform using only Razor pages). MVC 6 was abandoned due to Core and is not expected to be released. Core is currently planned to merge into “.NET 5”. [4]
Background
Based on ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC allows software developers to build a web application as a composition of three roles: Model, View and Controller. The MVC model defines web applications with 3 logic layers:
- Model (business layer)
- View (display layer)
- Controller (input control)
A model represents the state of a particular aspect of the application. A controller handles interactions and updates the model to reflect a change in state of the application, and then passes information to the view. A view accepts necessary information from the controller and renders a user interface to display that information.[5]
In April 2009, the ASP.NET MVC source code was released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).[6]
"ASP.NET MVC framework is a lightweight,[7] highly testable presentation framework that is integrated with existing ASP.NET features. Some of these integrated features are master pages and membership-based authentication. The MVC framework is defined in the System.Web.Mvc assembly."[8]
The ASP.NET MVC framework couples the models, views, and controllers using interface-based contracts, thereby allowing each component to be tested independently.
Apache License 2.0 release
In March 2012, Scott Guthrie announced on his blog that Microsoft had released part of its web stack (including ASP.NET MVC, Razor and Web API) under an open source license (Apache License 2.0).[9]
Guthrie wrote that "Doing so will enable a more open development model where everyone in the community will be able to engage and provide feedback on code checkins, bug-fixes, new feature development, and build and test the products on a daily basis using the most up-to-date version of the source code and tests."
The source code now resides on CodePlex. ASP.NET Web Forms was not included in this initiative for various reasons.[10]
Release history
Date | Version |
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10 December 2007 | ASP.NET MVC CTP |
13 March 2009 | ASP.NET MVC 1.0[11] |
16 December 2009 | ASP.NET MVC 2 RC[12] |
4 February 2010 | ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2[13] |
10 March 2010 | ASP.NET MVC 2[14] |
6 October 2010 | ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta[15] |
9 November 2010 | ASP.NET MVC 3 RC[15] |
10 December 2010 | ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2[16] |
13 January 2011 | ASP.NET MVC 3[17] |
20 September 2011 | ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview[18] |
15 February 2012 | ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta[19] |
31 May 2012 | ASP.NET MVC 4 RC[20] |
15 August 2012 | ASP.NET MVC 4[21] |
30 May 2013 | ASP.NET MVC 4 4.0.30506.0[22] |
26 June 2013 | ASP.NET MVC 5 Preview[23] |
23 August 2013 | ASP.NET MVC 5 RC 1[24] |
17 October 2013 | ASP.NET MVC 5[24] |
17 January 2014 | ASP.NET MVC 5.1[24] |
10 February 2014 | ASP.NET MVC 5.1.1[24] |
4 April 2014 | ASP.NET MVC 5.1.2[24] |
22 June 2014 | ASP.NET MVC 5.1.3[24] |
1 July 2014 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.0[24] |
28 August 2014 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.2[24] |
9 February 2015 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3[24] |
12 February 2018 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4[25] |
2 May 2018 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5[26] |
11 May 2018 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.6[24] |
29 November 2018 | ASP.NET MVC 5.2.7[24] |
Date | Version |
---|---|
17 May 2016 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.0-rc2[27] |
12 August 2016 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.0[27] |
17 August 2016 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.1[27] |
17 November 2016 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.2[27] |
6 March 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.3[28] |
9 May 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.4[28] |
20 September 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.5[28] |
14 November 2016 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0.6[28] |
16 November 2016 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.0[28] |
27 January 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.1[28] |
6 March 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.2[28] |
9 May 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.3[28] |
20 September 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.4[28] |
14 November 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.5[28] |
12 December 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.6[28] |
13 March 2018 | ASP.NET Core MVC 1.1.7[28] |
11 August 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0.0[29] |
14 November 2017 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0.1[28] |
9 January 2018 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0.2[28] |
13 March 2018 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0.3[28] |
30 May 2018 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.1.0[30] |
18 June 2018 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.1.1[31] |
4 December 2018 | ASP.NET Core MVC 2.2.0[32] |
29 September 2019 | ASP.NET Core MVC 3.0.0[32] |
3 December 2019 | ASP.NET Core MVC 3.1.0[33] |
14 January 2020 | ASP.NET Core MVC 3.1.1[34] |
View engines
The view engines used in the ASP.NET MVC 3 and MVC 4 frameworks are Razor and the Web Forms.[35][36] Both view engines are part of the MVC 3 framework. By default, the view engine in the MVC framework uses Razor .cshtml
and .vbhtml
, or Web Forms .aspx
pages to design the layout of the user interface pages onto which the data is composed. However, different view engines can be used.[37] Additionally, rather than the default ASP.NET Web Forms postback model, any interactions are routed to the controllers using the ASP.NET Routing mechanism. Views can be mapped to different URLs.[5]
Other view engines:
- The MVCContrib library contains 8 alternate view engines. Brail, NDjango, NHaml, NVelocity, SharpTiles, Spark, StringTemplate and XSLT.[38]
- The StringTemplate View Engine utilizes a .NET port of the Java templating engine, StringTemplate.[39]
- Spark is a view engine for the ASP.NET MVC (and the Castle Project MonoRail) frameworks.[40]
- NDjango is a port of the Django web framework's templating language to .NET. It is written in F# and comes with Visual Studio extension including full Intellisense support[41]
- Naked Objects for .NET is an implementation of the naked objects pattern using ASP.NET MVC
See also
References
- "Nuget package Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc". Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- "MVC Releases". Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- Rick Anderson. "Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3 (VB)". The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/
- Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC Framework". Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2007.
- Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET mvc 1.0 Source Released". Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
- Koirala, Shivprasad (27 September 2014). "Webform vs MVC performance comparison done with 25 user load test". codeproject. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
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- Scott Guthrie. "ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source". Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- Scott Hanselman. "ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions". Retrieved 29 March 2012.
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- Phil Haack. "ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released". Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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- "ASP.NET MVC 3". The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- "Announcing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Release Candidate 2)". ScottGu's Blog. weblogs.asp.net. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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- "ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Notes". The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- Microsoft ASP.NET Team. "ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Release Notes". The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- "Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 5.2.2". NuGet. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- "Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4". Microsoft. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- "Announcing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, Web API 5.2.5, and Web Pages 3.2.5". Microsoft. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
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- "NuGet Gallery: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- "Release 2.0.0 · aspnet/Mvc". Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
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- MVCContrib
- "string-template-view-engine-mvc - ASP.Net MVC ViewEngine for StringTemplate - Google Project Hosting". google.com.
- "Spark View Engine". CodePlex.
- "ndjango - An implementation of the Django Template Language on the .NET platform, using the F# language. - Google Project Hosting". google.com.
Further reading
- Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, and K. Scott Allen, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3, Wrox, 2011, ISBN 1-118-07658-3
- Jeffrey Palermo, Jimmy Bogard, Eric Hexter, Matthew Hinze, and Jeremy Skinner, ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action, Manning Publications, 2012, ISBN 978-1617-29041-1
- Steven Sanderson, Adam Freeman, Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework, Second Edition, Apress, 2011, ISBN 1-4302-3404-0
- Jonathan McCracken, Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010, ISBN 1-934356-53-0
- Stephen Walther, ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed, Sam's, 2009, ISBN 0-672-32998-0
- Arnaud Weil, Learn ASP.NET MVC, 2015, ISBN 1-32648303-X
- Andrew Lock, ASP.NET Core in Action, Manning Publications, 2018, ISBN 978-1617-29461-7