ASP.NET MVC 3 - What features do you want to see? [closed]

Question

I know a bunch of people that are really enjoying the improvements that ASP.NET MVC 2 made over the first release. I have just started to migrate our MVC 1 project over and so far areas has totally cleaned up the subfolder mess we had in our large scale application. As I dive deeper into all the improvements and changes that were made I still keep thinking to myself man it would be nice if they had x in this release. For instance, I would love it if they had some sort of dependency injection built in instead of having to use third party solutions.

My real question is now that ASP.NET MVC 2 is out in the wild, what features do want/wish the team had implemented and hope they will implement for ASP.NET MVC 3?

EDIT

Looks like dependency injection is built in for the first preview release of ASP.NET MVC 3! I like the features added so far. ASP.NET 3 preview one is out!

Answer 1

I think MVC 3 will not be too dramatic with it's improvements, but more steady and gradual.

The ASP.NET MVC 3 Roadmap has a snapshot of what the team are apparently looking at implementing in the next release and some of the points are very interesting.

I think my favourites from that list would probably be:

• More AJAX Helpers: This'll bring the framework more in line with the Webforms world which has all these helpers already and to some degree, acts as a barrier to some people taking up the platform.
• More Dependency Injection stuff - for those that want it, this is great. :)
• Improved Caching support is the big win for me. Having that built right into the framework would be a great benefit and could result in some nice performance savings.
• Additional ValidationAttributes wouldn't go a miss either. While the facility is great to add them, a good library of the common ones, such as Email and PropertiesMustMatch and so on.