ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is now ready

The long-waited new release of ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is now available for download. Microsoft today announced that the RTM (or, should we say RTW) version of MVC 2 is ready. You can download the latest release for both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 here.

As has become the custom, Scott Guthrie has a blog post about this new release. This post lists the following new features for ASP.NET MVC 2:

• New Strongly Typed HTML Helpers
• Enhanced Model Validation support across both server and client
• Auto-Scaffold UI Helpers with Template Customization
• Support for splitting up large applications into areas
• Asynchronous Controllers support that enables long running tasks in parallel
• Support for rendering sub-sections of a page/site using Html.RenderAction
• Lots of new helper functions, utilities, and API enhancements
• Improved Visual Studio tooling support

Happy coding!