MVC 1.0 Compatibility with VS 2010 - model-view-controller

We are planning to upgrade our technology to VS 2010. But I wonder if the MVC 2.0 is working properly since it has many issues raised from software developer who used it please see here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/41742.I want to use MVC 1.0 in VS 2010 is it compatible?

Indeed as Robaticus said, MVC2 works well and you shouldn't be afraid to use it... but if you really want to stick with MVC 1.0, take the relevant MVC DLLs and copy them into a known lib folder, and then directly link your project to those. By doing this, you will be directly linking to the old MVC libraries which will still work just fine. Just don't link to any of the MVC 2.0 libraries that will undoubtedly be sitting in the Global Assembly Cache.

MVC 2 works great; I'm using it right now. There are some very slight changes to the signature of some framework components, but overall works great. Would recommend 2 because they have a lot of new features to take advantage of and make your life easier.
If you had to, MVC 1 and MVC 2 they give you the source code, which you can include and use in your project, so you are always covered there.
MVC 1 and MVC 2 are compiled in .NET 3.5 SP 1 version, so you may be able to use the MVC 1 DLL directly...
HTH.

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Is ASP.NET Core MVC compatible with ASP.net MVC5?

I have an existing library which contains precompiled MVC5 views and other stuff like Base MVC controller etc. Can I use same library with ASP.NET Core MVC application?
Will it be supported completely?
By the description looks like the answer in your case is going to be No.
The way to understand it would be:
can the assembly target .Net core, if yes, then it can target aspnet
core as well.
If no, then you may be able to run your it as part of aspnet core on full framework, but I doubt that will also not work in your case.

Should I use App_Themes or Content/themes in MVC4?

Up until now I had been using MVC3 for my apps but with the new update of Visual Studio 2012 I got MVC4. I migrated a few of my apps and now they are broken.
I noticed that the new project template for an Internet application creates a ~/Content/themes/base folder.
And yet, up until now I had been accustomed to use the App_Themes folder for that. In fact, with VS.2013 you can use "Add ASP.NET FOlder | Themes".
So I am now confused with MVC4, has It deprecated the App_Themes folder (which seems more appropriate to me than ~/Content) ? or is there a significant difference?
App_Theme come from ASP.NET Platform and one goal of mvc is get a clean html code
One of the things that ASP.NET MVC is missing is the ability to
easily implement Themes. The older, more mature standard ASP.NET
framework includes theme support via the App_Themes folder; however
limited it can be, it’s still more than ASP.NET MVC currently has.
Well, at least until I wrote this little custom ViewEngine and
ControllerBase class to help out and allow us to very easily implement
Themes within our ASP.NET MVC applications
take a look this helpful article this link

Missing Single Page Application template in MVC4 RC

When I installed MVC4 beta on a development PC, it had a template for SPA (Single Page Application). Today on a different PC with the same setup (VS2010 SP1, win7), I installed MVC4 RC but no longer is the SPA template available (see image). Any one else having this issue? or is this a documented change that I could not find?
Changes from ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta
The major changes from ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta in this release are summarized below:
Removed ASP.NET Single Page Application: ASP.NET Single Page Application (SPA) shipped with ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta as an early preview of the experience for building applications that include significant client-side interactions using JavaScript. SPA won’t ship with the final MVC 4 release, but will continue to evolve outside of the MVC 4 release. Check out the ASP.NET SPA home page for details.
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http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes
P.S., Wow I am glad that I didn't use it for an app I build right now. I was considering it 3 months ago, but decided not to risk it because MS said that it is experimental.
You can get the SPA template in the Fall 2012 update. More information on the template here and here.
It`s very risky now
For example if you try to run it with System.json for serialization it runs well with WebApi and DBDATAContext methods but it`s impossible to use it with Entities relationship entity circular errors and so on. (There is a solution to change private access of method get, but would be too much work to have to change in all the access methos of all your entities.

Sitecore and MVC3

I am starting a project with Sitecore, I have looked for different possibilities. I have some experience with MVC but I don't understand why you want to combine this with Sitecore (6.4).
What are the benefits? Are there any examples of the implementation of (the code of) this (not the configuration on: http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/64/integrating%20an%20asp.net%20mvc%20web%20application%20in%20sitecore%20cms-usletter.pdf)?
Or why shouldn't I use MVC with Sitecore?
So when should I use Sitecore 6.4 with MVC3 and when not? And are there any (code)examples?
Thanks in advance!
I've successfully implemented my own MVP implementation using Sitecore. MVP is a bit more forgiving than MVC, and can easily be integrated into web forms based applications. I used T4 templates to generate Models directly from Sitecore templates using the built-in webservices which worked really well.
Sitecore doesn't support MVC yet (in the recommended release), and trying to make it work is probably not worth the effort. I believe they are working on a version that supports MVC properly, which may be the link you provided. However it's probably also very new and there is a lot of functionality in the old version that relies on web forms. I'd like to see it working under MVC in an official capacity for a few more iterations.
Implementing patterns such as MVC and MVP are all about separating concerns and making your presentation layer unit testable. It also encourages more elegant design.
Just reading the doc it looks like this is a guide for running Sitecore in parallel with MVC. I can't see anything about new rendering mechanisms for Sitecore, which would make templating difficult in anything other than web forms. It would however allow you to use the Sitecore API to build your own templates via MVC Views, but you would loose the inline editing functionality that you get out-of-the-box with web forms.
Using mvp is probably the simplest way to go. I wrote a blog post about it here.
However, we have used MVC3 with Razor before and it worked very well. The only issue is you lose the ability to use Page edit mode as you have to do some hacking of sitecore to get it to work. I'm contemplating writing a blog post about it if people are interested.
Just to follow up.. MVC is now supported in 6.6, which will be released on November 5th 2012. We just saw a demo from John West at the Sitecore Symposium and it looks like a great framework. One of the best things about it is that you can use MVC side-by-side with Web Forms. You don't have to make an all-in bet for MVC, you can just slowly migrate or build new components in MVC, while still running Web Forms throughout your site.

what are the advantages of MVC3 over MVC2

i am currently learning MVC2. actually working on my first MVC2 project.As the MVC3 beta is launched and available to download. please suggest me should i use MVC3(Beta) or continue with MVC2 and second thing is, if i move to MVC3 then what major advantages i will get from it.
My project is an ERP application.
Please suggest me what should i do.
Thanks
I suggest you take a look at this blog post from Scott Gu :
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/11/09/announcing-the-asp-net-mvc-3-release-candidate.aspx
To name some advantages, you can use the Razor View Engine, which depending on your requirements, it will make your view code nicer. I believe that's the case for an ERP System.
This is not 100% mvc3 related, but with the RC you get NuGet installed with it, if you're planning on using external libraries to help you out, that's a great way to manage them.
Partial Page output caching is a great feature for systems that share bits and pieces across different ui's.
Unobtrusive JavaScript and Validation is also another great new feature that will help you keep your code's maintainability among other benefits.
MVC3 also has some benefits from the dynamic aspects of .NET 4, and that also helps you keep your view code cleaner.
And my end point would be, MVC3 is already on RC stage....it already has Go Live license and support...if you're learning, I would suggest learning the latest, you will get all the knowledge you need to use mvc 1 and 2, and also the new things about mvc 3.
One factor is the release date of MVC 3 compared to the release date of your application, i.e. you should not ship an application based on a beta version of MVC.
If you switch to MVC 3 beta, you should be aware that there may be changes in the final release, so you may have to make changes for each version until the relase, and your application is only guaranteed to work with one specific pre-release version, until the final release of MVC 3.

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