With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has released the ASP.NET MVC 4 – RTM for Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

ASP.NET MVC 4 is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using well-established design patterns and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. It installs side-by-side with ASP.NET MVC 3.

ASP.NET MVC 4 for VS2010 SP1 will add necessary support for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for building ASP.NET MVC 4 applications using Visual Studio.

ASP.NET MVC 4 also includes:

* ASP.NET Web API, a framework for building and consuming HTTP services that can reach a broad range of clients including browsers, phones, and tablets. ASP.NET Web API is great for building services that follow the REST architectural style, plus it supports RPC patterns.
* ASP.NET Web Pages and the new Razor syntax provide a fast, approachable, and lightweight way to combine server code with HTML to create dynamic web content.
* Web Optimization, a framework for bundling and minifying scripts and CSS files.
* NuGet, a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.

You can download ASP.NET MVC 4 for VS2010 SP1 using Web Platform Installer from below links:

Download

ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 (x86 and x64) – (English)  (using Microsoft Web Platform Installer )

ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 (x86 and x64) – (English) (from MSDN Subscription downloads)

ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 (from Microsoft Download Center – Direct Download)

Top Features included in ASP.NET MVC 4 are:

  • ASP.NET Web API .
  • Refreshed and modernized default project templates .
  • New mobile project template (using jQuery Mobile).
  • Many new features to support mobile apps .
  • Enhanced support for asynchronous methods .
  • Read the full feature list in the release notes.

Go on everyone upgrade your existing beta or RC version of ASP.NET MVC 4 project to RTM version and rock the world.

You want to learn ASP.NET MVC 4, then go through the new tutorial sets below

Tutorials: ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Features

ASP.NET Web API

Release Notes for ASP.NET MVC 4

new ASP.NET MVC 4 tutorial series


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