What’s new in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Candidate

Recently before some time, Scott Gu announced ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Candidate. I have downloaded it and used it for a while and I have found following new things. ASP.NET Enhancements: New facebook asp.net mvc template is there. Creating facebook application with asp.net mvc become very easy. In just a few step you can easily create facebook application and get data of users and friends of facebook. Real Time Signal R support is there. You can easily create chat kind of applications with it. You can also take advantage of new web socket in .NET 4.5. New updates with ASP.NET WEB Api now supports OData, Integrated tracing and automatically generating help document for your api ASP.NET Friendly URLs: This feature makes developers life very easy with creating SEO friendly and cleaner looking URLs with out .aspx extension. The Friendly URLs feature also makes it easier for developers to add mobile support to their applications with support for mobile .ASPX pages and supporting switching between desktop and mobile views. It can be used with existing ASP.NET v4.0 applications Enhancement to Web publishing All new single page application template with knock out JavaScript library and restful UI.