--- title: Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of the newly released ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assembly, covering lightweight server controls (TextBox, Repeater), asynchronous controllers for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/exploring-the-asp-net-mvc-2-futures-assemby-e6a0qgjuh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of the newly released ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assembly, covering lightweight server controls (TextBox, Repeater), asynchronous controllers for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/exploring-the-asp-net-mvc-2-futures-assemby-e6a0qgjuh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/e6a0qgjUH.png og:image:alt: Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Exploring the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assemby **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of the newly released ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assembly, covering lightweight server controls (TextBox, Repeater), asynchronous controllers for freeing worker threads, the REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK for content negotiation, donut caching, CookieTempDataProvider, the [SkipBinding] attribute, and a new Html.Serialize/DeserializeAttribute mechanism that brings ViewState-like state persistence to MVC views and model binding, with the author questioning whether this ViewState feature should be considered a best practice. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What new features are included in the ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assembly released alongside preview 2? The futures assembly adds lightweight server controls like TextBox and Repeater, asynchronous controllers to free up worker threads during processing-intensive requests, the REST for ASP.NET MVC SDK for content negotiation across XML, JSON, and Atom, donut caching, a CookieTempDataProvider, a SkipBinding attribute, and a new Html.Serialize/DeserializeAttribute mechanism that reintroduces ViewState-like state persistence to MVC. _Developers tracking ASP.NET MVC feature previews can follow how these experimental features evolve on daily.dev._ ### How does the new Html.Serialize helper bring ViewState back to ASP.NET MVC? Html.Serialize is a view helper that writes a hidden form field containing a serialized version of an object, with modes PlainText, Encrypted, and Signed; the encrypted and signed modes actually reuse ASP.NET Webforms ViewState internally. 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