ASP.NET MVC 4 for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1

ASP.NET MVC 4 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications that follow the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages you to maintain a clear separation of concerns— views for UI, controllers for handling user input, and models for domain logic. ASP.NET MVC applications are particularly suited for unit testing and using test-driven development (TDD) techniques. ASP.NET MVC 4 makes it easy to write applications for the mobile web through adaptive rendering and device specific display modes.

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.

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86), Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

PowerShell 2.0, .NET 4, ASP.NET 4, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2010 SP1 are required to use this feature.

For more information about installing this release, please see the ASP.NET MVC 4 Release Notes.