What is the difference between each version of MVC 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6?
Ask by Anupam Mishra
Updated 23 Sep 2020
MVC 2
· ModelMetadata and ModelMetadataProvider Classes
· Model Validator Providers
· Client-Side Validation
· Client-Side Validation
· New RequireHttpsAttribute Action Filter
· Overriding the HTTP Method Verb
· Single-Project Areas
· New HiddenInputAttribute for Templated Helpers
MVC 3
· New Intranet Project Template
· Extensible Scaffolding with MvcScaffold integration
· HTML 5 Project Templates
· Extensible "New Project" Dialog Box
· Razor View Engine
· Support for Multiple View Engines
· Partial-Page Output Caching
· Granular Control over Request Validation
· New Overloads for "Html.LabelFor" and "Html.LabelForModel"
· Client-Side Validation Enabled by Default
· Global Action Filters
· New "ViewBag" Property
· Remote Validator
· JSON Binding Support
· Sessionless Controller Support
· JavaScript and Ajax Improvements
· New "AdditionalMetadataAttribute" Class
· "DataAnnotations" Metadata Attributes
· "ValidationAttribute" Class
· Validation Interfaces
MVC 4
· Add Controller to other project folder
· Task Support for Asynchronous Controllers
· Bundling and Minification
· Enabling Logins from Facebook and Other Sites Using OAuth and OpenID
· App_Start folder and separate classes
· Display Modes
· Azure SDK
· Database Migrations
· ASP.NET Web API
· Mobile Project Template
· Empty Project Template
· Enhancements to Default Project Templates
MVC 5
· One ASP.NET
· Attribute based routing
· Asp.Net Identity
· Bootstrap in the MVC template
· Authentication Filters
· Filter overrides
MVC 6
· ASP.NET MVC and Web API has been merged in to one.
· Dependency injection is inbuilt and part of MVC.
· Side by side - deploy the runtime and framework with your application
· Everything packaged with NuGet, Including the .NET runtime itself.
· New JSON based project structure.
· No need to recompile for every change. Just hit save and refresh the browser.
· Compilation done with the new Roslyn real-time compiler.
· vNext is Open Source via the .NET Foundation and is taking public contributions.
· vNext (and Rosyln) also runs on Mono, on both Mac and Linux today.