I received an early birthday present from the Microsoft crew today... they've released the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP! Yeow! You can get it here.
Scott Guthrie has just blogged about the release and also has quite a few good links. Go here to get the low down from him.
It was also good to see that Scott Hanselman had left a comment to say he was in the process of recording a 40 minute video show how to make a sample site using ASP.NET MVC. He also said that we shall be flooded with samples soon. Bring on the downpour!
As I write this I'm in the process of installing everything thought I would share a couple of tid bits and tips.
Firstly, it was funny to see that after the install had been going for a while, down the bottom of the screen the message read - "The installation is taking longer than expected." Good to see someone having a laugh. :-)
Because I wanted to play around with ADO.NET Entities (& LINQ to Entities) as well, I needed to install the ADO.NET Entity Framework tools that are compatible with this latest ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP release. You can get that from here. But for most of you, before you install that you'll have to patch your VS 2008 install... You can get that patch here.
You'll also want to grab the MVC Toolkit aswell, it provides a whole lotta extra helpers and from first glance, also contains a sample project for a blog application. You can get the MVC Toolkit here.
That's all from me right now... I'm off to play with my new toy!
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