LocalDB was introduced in SQL Server 2012 CTP3. It’s basically a new version of SQL Express, with same functionality, dedicated to developers. So you don’t need to install any SQL server. If you have installed SQL 2012 or Visual Studio 11 then you already have it, and it runs over .Net 4 or higher. If you are using Visual Studio 11 and have been playing with the new EntityFramework and MVC, you can see it on the default connection string.
After trying to figure out why the bundling of all my JavaScript skips some files (like Knockout.js, and History.js) I opened the reflector to find out more. It seems that the RegisterTemplateBundles just adds the default JavaScript libraries, like JQuery and MicrosoftAjax, hardcoded. This means that they are the “template” when registering the template bundle.
The JavaScript Jabber podcast did an interview with Jeremy Ashkenas, the author of Backbone.js (as well as CoffeeScript). The panelists interviewing him included also Yehuda Katz, the author of the competing MVC framework Ember.js.
xVAL is an open source validation framework for ASP.NET MVC. It is still a Beta, but I read some very good reviews about it.
MS will release a validation framework of its own in MVC framework V2. It is available in Preview 1 version (alpha?), but you can run it side-by-side with the good ol' version 1.
Do yourself a favor and take an hour or so to watch the following video about ASP.NET MVC by Scott Hanselman:
http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T49F
It really gives you the basics of most things you'll need for building a full scale web application.
The majority of deployed Web applications are based on some flavor of MVC, but those applications represent the past, not the future.The future is the architecture of RIA + SOA.This post talk about the gulf between MVC + AJAX and RIA + SOA