New Launches from ASP.NET Group
Scott Guthrie and the ASP.NET group have been busy this week with many new releases. The most anticipated release is ASP.NET MVC 3 which is a framework built on top of ASP.NET that provides the developer features that can simply their code and provide deeper extensibility. One exciting new feature is a new view-engine option called Razor giving developers a more code-focused way of building templates used in HTML generation.
Microsoft also released IIS Express 7.5, a free version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developer scenarios. More about it here.
Personally, the one I am interested in diving into is WebMatrix 1.0. This new development tool is free and provides an easy ramp-up to individuals new to Web development. This tool takes care of many of the common tasks and procedures allowing Web sites to be build quickly and easily but without restricting the more advanced developer's ability to extend the built-in functionality. For more, see here and here.
Hanselman has a great blog posting on these new tools as well.
Download and Enjoy!