Thanks to some help from Elijah Manor, I was ready to pull down the Preview 2 installer for ASP.Net MVC 2 and play around with the new features over the week-end. Long story short; there are some people born lucky, and I am not one of them. The installer kept tanking hard telling me that I was missing important system updates and that the installer couldn’t continue without those. Say what?
After messing around for a bit, I remember having other issues due to my (foolish?) decision to install the VS 2010 beta on the same machine as VS 2008 (instead of in a VM like Evan Hoff did). So I started looking through my installed items and saw that MVC 1.1 is the VS 2010 compatible version. After uninstalling that MVC 2 Preview 2 installed without a hitch.
The happy end to this story is that you can go back and re-install MVC 1.1 for VS 2010 once the Preview 2 installation has completed without any other issues. HTH.
Tags: asp.net, mvc, vs2008