If you’ve downloaded and installed the latest ASP.NET MVC 4 RC bits, you might have noticed one of the recently added MVC4 project templates is not longer there. The Single Page Application (SPA) project template that shipped with the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta as an early preview, will not ship with the final MVC 4 release. It will however continue to evolve outside of the MVC 4 release.

More information is available on the ASP.NET SPA Home Page:

“An official release of ASP.NET SPA won’t be ready in time to ship with the final ASP.NET MVC 4 release. You can find the source code for ASP.NET SPA and follow the development effort on the ASP.NET CodePlex site.”

If you look closely you will also notice another change. While it appears that a new “Basic” template has been added, the previous “Empty” template has been renamed to “Basic” and a new, much more empty “Empty” template has been added to give a bare bones empty starting point for an MVC4 project.

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After spending some time scouring the web researching some aspects of the ASP.Net Web API I gathered the following collection of useful links and decided to share them here.

WebAPI for the MVC Guy

Building and consuming REST services with ASP.NET Web API using MediaTypeFormatter and OData support

Custom errors and error detail policy in ASP.NET Web API Jimmy

ASP.NET Web API- How content negotiation works

ASP.NET Web API- Extending content negotiation with new formats

RSS & Atom MediaTypeFormatter for ASP.NET WebAPI

Hyperlinking With the ASP.NET Web API

Force download of file from ASP.NET WebAPI

Authenticate, Authorise WebApi with HttpClient

Implementing [RequireHttps] with ASP.NET Web API

Request throttling in ASP.NET Web API

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A team from Microsoft Patterns & Practices have been working to create guidance for building “Modern Web Applications” in conjunction with an advisory group of individuals from the developer community.

“Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser web applications with a focus on client-side interactivity. These applications take advantage of the latest web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along with modern web technologies such as jQuery, Internet Explorer 9, and ASP.NET MVC3.”

To achieve this, the team is creating a reference application to give them a real world example to build and provide a sample to learn from.

The sample application and related guidance documentation are currently available at http://silk.codeplex.com and are free to download. The latest update was June 3rd, 2010 with Drop 10, and updates will continue to be made as the project continues.

I will be posting more on some specifics of the code and guidance, but wanted to share this initial post.

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