ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap

Microsoft published their ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap. This is a tentative look at what Microsoft plans to add to ASP.NET MVC 4. The 3 things that really stick out in the roadmap are the focus on tooling, mobile platforms, and cloud based solutions.

The ASP.NET MVC Team is looking at some sort of pluggable wizard functionality, called Recipes, that allows developers to create their own pluggable wizards in Visual Studio to automate the addition of functionality in ASP.NET MVC 4 Projects. This sounds very much like Gems in Rails, but tied to Visual Studio.

Given the movement towards smartphones and tablets, the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Team is considering better support for mobile versions of ASP.NET MVC 4 Websites through templating, etc.

Given that the ASP.NET MVC Team is under Scott Guthrie who is recently in charge of Azure now, there is of course a priority to make it easier to publish ASP.NET MVC 4 Websites to Cloud Services, like Windows Azure.

And, last, there is also the continued push to improve support for JavaScript and Ajax as well as to improve the Razor View Engine.

For more information, check out the ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap on CodePlex. The list of ASP.NET MVC Tutorials and Resources has been updated to include a link to the ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap.