Other than Razor (which is optional), not that much has changed and it is a pretty painless upgrade. Under the old way they used to version software, this is really more like ASP.NET MVC 1.5 SP1
The other thing worth noting is way better support for dependency injection, through the DependecyResolver class. I'm becoming particularly attached to the IViewPageActivator interface for providing custom view creation logic (in my case, injection of helpers and custom session information into the page object).
Heh, sure it's optional but if you stack it up next to the TERRIBLE Web Forms syntax...
Well if you were using Spark already, you can go to v3 without changing your templates
Spare a thought for those of us who have to maintain ASP.NET 2.0 Web Forms apps for a living.
Re:ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
by abrudtkuhl on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @03:33PM
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I know! They iterate pretty fast. I love it but it's hard to keep up
If you've not read it, a classic Joel article: Fire And Motion http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
An interesting article... applies very well to the LINQ2SQL / EMF / ADO.NET quagmire. Not so much to fairly mild iterations of MVC.
What about ASP.NET, ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, and now ASP.NET MVC + varieties of view engine?
What about WinForms, WPF, Silverlight?
Winforms to WPF was about 20 years, and a sorely needed change.
Silverlight is iterating quite quickly, but then they have WPF to build on.
I'm talking about WinForms .NET. .NET itself is not even 10 years old.
Nuts.