ASP.NET MVC Forum

The simple MVC Forum

MVC Forum is a simple, easy to use, bulletin board system / forum. It's built using a provider model, so any parts that doesn't work like you want them to, can be exchanged easily. MVC Forum works with themes, if you don't like the phpBB styled theme included in the project, it's simple to create another look and feel.

The application is based on ASP.NET MVC 3, Ninject 3 and Entity Framework 5, and can easily be deployed to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud. Of course MVC Forum can take advantage of the cloud, using blob storage and a SQL Azure database.

If you want more power, you just add more instances. No worries! Attachments, search indexes and data is all handled properly and made to work in the cloud.

Follow this project at http://mvcforum.org, on twitter http://twitter.com/mvcforum or on my personal blog http://newsuntold.dk. You might be able to catch me on JabbR here: http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/mvcforum

Contributors - Please read

Go visit the Contribute! page.

The roadmap

Go to the 'Downloads' page and click the 'planned' link on the right. That will show you a list of planned releases. The planned features for each release will be mentioned in the description. If you have any ideas, request, etc. please create an issue on the 'Issue Tracker' page, that way you can have your say in what's important and what's not!

Feedback

If you download our project (the releases or source code), and run into any problems, please tell us! You can do this on the http://mvcforum.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic page, or by signing up on http://mvcforum.org and posting your issues. This is the only way we can help you and we feel it's only fair that you help us out in return for the free software we provide you with :)

Status

The first release candidate is here (February 10, 2013)

The last couple of months has been used getting the last needed features done and tested. We've decided not to include some of the suggested features, we feel it's time to get the v1.0 release done. When we release v1.0, we'll go on with new features in the minor releases.
The database schema for RC1 will be the same as for the final release, so you can install a site now, without having to worry about being left behind. We'll probably also do a upgrade script that will take a v0.9 database to the final 1.0 schema.

The first beta release is here (October 7, 2012)

We've been busy getting MVC Forum ready for running fully in a cloud environment, and after a busy week of testing, feel we have reached the goal. Just to prove a point we've moved http://mvcforum.org to a web role on Windows Azure.
Please note that the database schema will change before releasing version 1.0, and that we do not plan on making upgrades from version 0.9 to 1.0. Please take this into consideration before using this on your websites.

The fifth alpha release is here (September 10, 2012)

Yes, the project is still alive! We're back with another release. We have been focusing on the forum administration for this release, and have branched a lot of the MVC related code out into another open source project.
Please note that the database schema will change before releasing version 1.0, and that we do not plan on making upgrades from version 0.8.5 to 1.0. Please take this into consideration before using this on your websites.

The fourth alpha release is here (February 17, 2012)

We're back with another release, this time with we've been working to make it easier to integrate MVC Forum with your existing application. The Membership provider has been swapped out with a wrapper than will let you use whatever provider you need. If you just want to run MVC Forum, we've included a simple provider.
Please note that the database schema will change before releasing version 1.0, and that we do not plan on making upgrades from version 0.8 to 1.0. Please take this into consideration before using this on your websites.

The third alpha release is here (December 2, 2011)

A month and a half worth of hard work, and we're ready with the third alpha. This time we've had our focus on creating a search provider for the forum, and a add-on framework. The add-on framework has initially been used for a bunch of anti-spam features.
Because of the growing complexity, we've put some work into getting the first (27) UI tests done using NUnit and Selenium. Get them off the repository and run them on your site!
Please note that the database schema will change before releasing version 1.0, and that we do not plan on making upgrades from version 0.7 to 1.0. Please take this into consideration before using this on your websites.

The second alpha release is here (October 11, 2011)

A month's worth of hard work, and we're ready with another alpha release for you! We have been focusing on the Entity Framework data provider and getting the last parts of the application plumbing done.
Please note that the database schema will change before releasing version 1.0, and that we do not plan on making upgrades from version 0.6 to 1.0. Please take this into consideration before using this on your websites.

The alpha release is here (September 10, 2011)

Yes, we've just released version 0.5 Alpha. As mentioned earlier this release only has one data provider. This release is an alpha release, so we wouldn't recommend using this in a deployed environment (We have 3 sites running with this version). The release was done to get feedback, bug reports, feature request etc.
Please note that the database schema will change before releasing version 1.0, and that we do not plan on making upgrades from version 0.5 to 1.0. Please take this into consideration before using this on your websites.