Disclaimer: This is not tested thoroughly and I have only posted here for the benefit of people experimenting with MVC and Sitecore 6.6 technology preview.
I know there is no official MVC 4 support in the technology preview but I was looking at the upgrade path for a pure MVC application from MVC 3 to MVC 4 and it seemed almost to easy - here is what the ASP.NET team says you need to do: Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 3 project to MVC 4.
I thought I would give it a go with my Sitecore 6.6 test rig and after a bit of configuration work it appeared to be working. Here is what I changed to get Sitecore to work with a MVC 4 project:
I used the /Views/Web.config from a vanilla MVC 4 project.
In the /Web.config (the one that is distributed with Sitecore as Web.config.MVC) I added these keys to the appSettings:
<add key="webpages:Version" value="2.0.0.0" />
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
<add key="PreserveLoginUrl" value="true" />
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />And changed these assembly version numbers in the system.web/compilation section:
<!--<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />-->
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<!--<add assembly="System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />-->
<add assembly="System.Web.WebPages, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />And finally I had to add assembly bindings to make Sitecore use the correct MVC assemblies:
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="3.5.0.0" newVersion="4.5.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>If you try this, let me know how you get on…
