Microsoft has announced the first release candidate of the ASP.NET MVC toolkit with a final version expected next month. In the announcement Scott Guthrie provided examples of some of the new features over the previous betas.
• Several new Visual Studio tooling features including Add Controller, Add View, Adding and Customizing Scaffold Templates
• View Improvements
• Form Post Improvements
• Unit Testing Improvements
• Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection
• File Handling Improvements
• AJAX Improvements
A good resource for developers wondering why they shouldn’t just stick to ASP.NET Web Forms is the new book Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise by Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello. It helps one move away from the drag and drop model of development to one that allows for more robust, maintainable, and reliable applications.