Yesterday night I had decided, that this morning I was going to sit down and write a post on the uses of the IsSectionDefined method in the Razor syntax, and how useful it was for determining if views were implementing certain sections in a layout.  (which is very useful and provides a great deal of flexibility in your design)

However this morning I awoke to find that Scott Guthrie had written about the same subject, and who am I to compete against The Gu.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/30/asp-net-mvc-3-layouts-and-sections-with-razor.aspx

Enjoy!

The title says it all, so go get your copy today and check out all the new features.  You can download it here.

New features include:

• Razor View Engine
• Dynamic View and ViewModel Properties
• “Add View” Dialog Box Supports Multiple View Engines
• Service Location and Dependency Injection Support
• Global Filters
• New JsonValueProviderFactory Class
• Support for .NET Framework 4 Validation Attributes and IValidatableObject
• New IClientValidatable Interface
• Support for >NET Framework 4 Metadata Attributes
• New IMetadataAware Interface
• New Action Result Types (HttpNotFoundResultAction and HttpStatusCodeResultAction)
• Permanent Redirect Support in the controller (RedirectPermanent, RedirectToRoutePermanent, and RedirectToActionPermanent)

Looks like this is going to be a very worth while upgrade, and a special thanks should be given to Phil and team for making ASP.NET MVC everything that ASP.NET WebForms isn’t.