All DotVVM users are probably familiar with Bootstrap for DotVVM and DotVVM BusinessPack. Those easy-to-use controls are a big part of why we think of DotVVM as an easy to learn & use framework. But did you know that those two control packs have a little sibling? Let me introduce you to DotVVM Contrib controls - collection of free and open-source controls developed and maintained by our community.

DotVVM can be used to something else than just building new web apps using the MVVM approach. Thanks to its support of both old ASP.NET and new ASP.NET Core stacks, it can be an amazing tool which helps to modernize old web sites to use .NET Core.

You may have noticed that DotVVM 2.3.0 appeared on NuGet few days ago. This was an important milestone for us as we have published the first stable release of DotVVM Business Pack.

It has been almost 5 years since the first commit in the DotVVM repository on GitHub. Many things changed since then, including the name of the framework - originally, we called it Redwood. Even .NET Core didn’t exist at that time – the first version of DotVVM supported only classic ASP.NET with OWIN.

We are thrilled to reach a new milestone – the release of DotVVM 2.2. It introduce several new features, some performance improvements and bug fixes.

It has been a few months since we released the preview of Bootstrap 4 for DotVVM, a popular library that simplifies the syntax of Bootstrap widgets, brings data-binding support, and integrates with the rest of DotVVM platform.

Few days ago, we have published a stable release of DotVVM 2.1 on the official NuGet feed. It is mostly performance & bug fix release, but a few new features made into this version as well.

So, you have upgraded to the new Bootstrap 4 for DotVVM and now Visual Studio is spitting errors all over the place?

Today, I'd like to tell you about the project we were working on recently.

The long-awaited version 4.0 of Bootstrap – the most popular CSS framework – has shipped at the beginning of this year, with some new widgets and features. A lot of changes were also made under the hood. Migration to flexbox and improved grid system now allows easy positioning and alignment. New colors should simplify to customize the appearance of Bootstrap applications.