ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Roadmap - Improved Productivity and Enterprise Ready

The Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Team published the roadmap for ASP.NET MVC 2.0. The theme is improved productivity and enterprise ready

 

ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Features

Some of the features they mention for ASP.NET MVC 2.0 include:

• Areas - Provide a means of grouping controllers and views to build out subsections of a site in isolation.
• Asynchronous Controller Actions - Provide an asynchronous programming model for controller actions for improved scalability.
• Strongly-typed input helpers – Expression-based helpers for generating form fields against the model.
• Strongly-typed link helpers – strongly typed helpers for generating action links
• Support for Data Annotations - The default model binder will include support for Data Annotations attributes (a la Dynamic Data).
• Caching Improvements - Improve various caching scenarios.
• Misc - Various improvements

 

You can read more about the ASP.NET MVC 2.0 features here.