Will LS5 include an MVC4 project template?

As far as memory serves LS4 contained a nice MVC3 project template. Will LS5 contain an updated version for MVC4? :)

Also, I've noticed that the MVC4 project template contains a pretty cool initialization logic for the database (altough it's EF5 based), any chance of having something similar? With migrations maybe? (And please add the CreateDatabase() bit - pretty pretty please with cherries on top?)

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)] public sealed class InitializeSimpleMembershipAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute { private static SimpleMembershipInitializer _initializer; private static object _initializerLock = new object(); private static bool _isInitialized;

public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
    // Ensure ASP.NET Simple Membership is initialized only once per app start
    LazyInitializer.EnsureInitialized(ref _initializer, ref _isInitialized, ref _initializerLock);
}

private class SimpleMembershipInitializer
{
    public SimpleMembershipInitializer()
    {
        Database.SetInitializer<UsersContext>(null);

        try
        {
            using (var context = new UsersContext())
            {
                if (!context.Database.Exists())
                {
                    // Create the SimpleMembership database without Entity Framework migration schema
                    ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.CreateDatabase();
                }
            }

            WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("DefaultConnection", "UserProfile", "UserId", "UserName", autoCreateTables: true);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("The ASP.NET Simple Membership database could not be initialized. For more information, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=256588", ex);
        }
    }
}

}

Cheers

Do you mean an actual VS template or an example project?

I'm not sure how to understand your question?

I mean the project template in VS that says "Lightspeed ASP.NET MVC3 Application"

You can disregard until I installed version 4 back on my machine. I never actually noticed that LightSpeed shipped with a project template at all and thought you were talking about the example projects.

Thanks for the feedback :) I will have to have a look at this next week but I will let you know if we can squeeze this in.

Jeremy

Any news? :)

Sorry for not getting back to you on this earlier - we wont be adding in anything for now but Ive popped this on our backlog for after 5.0. Currently we are just tidying up the docs so we are looking to get the release out the door soon :)

Jeremy

Hiya, any progress on this? I'm really in need of a in-code database initialization and migrations don't seem to be cutting it for me, It'd be helpful if LS could create the DB as well :/

Sorry no we haven't made any progress on this.

Jeremy