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ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate had been annouce released by ASP.NET team yesterday (10-Nov-2010).

You all can download a copy of the RC at the here.

So, what's the new highlight function you can get in this release ? Among them are :

Razor Intellisense within Visual Studio
Colorization and intellisense support for Razor-based view templates is now supported within Visual Studio and the free Visual Web Developer Express. 

NuGet Package Manager
You can use NuGet to easily download and install both commercial and open source libraries within your projects.

Partial Page Output Caching
ASP.NET MVC has supported output caching of full page responses since V1.  With ASP.NET MVC V3 (starting with today’s RC) we are also enabling support for partial page output caching – which allows you to easily output cache regions or fragments of a response as opposed to the entire thing.  This ends up being super useful in a lot of scenarios.

Unobtrusive JavaScript and Validation
One of the nice enhancements with ASP.NET MVC V3 is that the AJAX and Validation helpers in ASP.NET MVC now both use an unobtrusive JavaScript approach by default. Unobtrusive JavaScript avoids injecting inline JavaScript into HTML markup, and instead enables cleaner separation of behavior using the new HTML 5 “data-“ convention (which conveniently works on older browsers – including IE6 - as well). This makes your HTML smaller and cleaner, and makes it easier to optionally swap out or customize JS libraries.  The Validation helpers in ASP.NET MVC 3 also now use the jQueryValidate plugin by default.

So, what are you waiting for ? Download and try it today !

***Please make sure to uninstall any previous ASP.NET MVC 3 releases you have installed on your system (as well as any previous ASP.NET Web Pages setups that you might have installed).***