ASP.NET-MVC 2 RC Best Features

Question

I\'ve been working with MVC 1 for some time now and have decided to finally give MVC 2 a shot.

My question is, for those who have been using 2 for some time what are

Answer 1

Have a look at Scott Guthries blog to get some ideas of the new things.

Answer 2

Areas!!!

Using areas in a new publication CMS system to keep the admin controller/views seperate from the regular front end of the site.

The strongly typed helpers is good too. (See @womp's answer)

Scot Gu's Blog Post on MVC 2

Answer 3

XVal style validation attributes that can automatically generate corresponding client side validators.

Answer 4

Single-project areas.

Provides a way to conceptually separate a large web application into logical "areas" while maintaining the integrity of a single web application.

Answer 5

Strongly type Html Helpers.

No more "magic strings" to pass a property name into a helper means more compile time checking, less wasted time debugging.