Today, Phil Haack reported that the ASP.NET MVC framework has been officially moved out of beta status and released to the world. Actually, they're calling it a "Release to the Web." Sorry, world. Whatever you want to call it, though, the MVC framework is finally bug-free enough to be called  done*.

It's good timing, too. If you're like me, you were waiting for the beta to end before really getting into ASP.NET MVC because you were afraid that each release would break your projects. Between preview 2 and preview 3, for example, the MVC architecture changed drastically due to community feedback. Well, I guess its time to really dive in and I'm excited to do it.

ASP.NET MVC still has a long way to go. For example, we can expect to see fun stuff like design mode support and the ability to use controls declaratively in ASP.NET MVC 2.0.  I know those sound like essential features, but they are part of the problem that ASP.NET MVC tried to address by providing the developer with tighter control over their markup. Plus, you can always instantiate a control and call its rendering method if you want to use it so badly.

This announcement was made at Mix '09 today by Scott Guthrie, the same guy who wrote the e-book tutorial I recently wrote about. If you're interested in learning more about ASP.NET MVC, check out the website here.

Download

You probably want the download link. Very greedy of you. Well, fine. Here you go: Download ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 from Microsoft

*No software is ever done.