ASP.NET MVC 3 RC versions

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

I was not sure if what I had on my machine was RC or RC2. So here are the details of the two:

ASP.NET MVC 3 RC – Released on the 9th of November 2010, has the version number of 3.0.11029.0. Here’s the announcement from ‘The Gu’.

ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2 – Released just about a month later (10th of December 2010), gets installed with the version number of . Here’s the announcement from ‘The Gu’. You can just download and install the RC2 bits directly. There’s no need to uninstall the previous RC version.

So there you go, RC is 11029 and RC2 is 11209 (I actually did get these number messed up!). The other difference is in the size of the installation that gets shown in the Add/Remove Programs window.

7 Comments

dude the difference is 029 and 209 ;p

rafnex - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:19:27 AM

Admittedly, it's tricky because they're so similar, but the Version numbers ARE different. RC = 11029, RC2 = 11209. If you're dyslexic like me, you'll lose your mind looking at that. :)

Jason Clark - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:47:53 PM

Based on your screenshot, they do not have the same version number. RC 1 has a version of 3.0.11029.0 and RC 2 has 3.0.11209.0.

Ryan LaNeve - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:39:59 PM

Actually, I too thought the version numbers were the same, however if you look extra closely...

ASP.NET MVC 3 RC has version number: 3.0.11029.0
ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2 has version number: 3.0.11209.0

The difference being RC has a minor version of eleven thousand twenty-nine, and RC2 has a minor version of eleven thousand two hundred and nine.

Scott Wade - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 8:53:38 PM

11029 ain't the same with 11209

rafnex - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:23:15 AM

11029 != 11209

Jeff - Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:47:53 PM

duh.. I feel real dumb... sorry for the confusion guys.

Arun

Arun Mahendrakar - Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:07:18 PM

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