ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Features

ASP.NET MVC 4 is built on top of the many features of its previous versions and include new features like:

ASP.NET Web API, a new framework for building HTTP and RESTful services.

A new HTML5-based default template in Visual Studio and a new Mobile Application project template.

Automatic selection of rendered views with Display Modes. This is particularly useful when building applications that will run not only on desktop browsers but on mobile browsers as well. I

t will let the application determine the best view to render based on the browser making the request.

jQuery Mobile and mobile features.

Task support for asynchronous controllers.

Microsoft Windows Azure SDK support for deploying ASP.NET MVC 4 applications to Windows Azure.

Bundling and minification for CSS and JavaScript files to help reduce the amount of HTTP requests as well as the size of those requests.

Facebook, OpenID, and OAuth authentication.