David Komárek Lead Product Manager at Kentico Software

The closer to the release of the first beta of Kentico 12, the more questions about our roadmap show up in my inbox. Let's talk a little bit more about the better authoring experience to empower marketers and also MVC-first topics and the future of Kentico EMS.

The top voted idea ever present on ideas.kentico.com, supported by more than 400 votes, just made it officially to Kentico 10.

Since the fresh start for MVC in Kentico 9, we have received great feedback on what should be the next scenarios our partners would like to implement in their MVC projects. By far, the possibility to manage online stores and run marketing campaigns surpassed other areas and I am, therefore, glad to let you know that these wishes just came true!

The MVC architectural pattern has been around for over 35 years, having been first formulated by Trygve Reenskaug in 1979. It is becoming more and more popular in the world of ASP.NET, as well as Kentico CMS. Based on the feedback we have been receiving since MVC 2 and Kentico 5.5  were released, we have introduced a completely redesigned way to integrate your MVC applications with Kentico 9. From an architectural perspective, it is the cleanest and most straightforward support for MVC ever built in Kentico. It is Open Source and based on the best practises MVC developers are used to.

If you want to show pages in a repeater, categorized by the first letter of their name (or by the year when they were created), and you do not want to use hierarchical transformations because of the complexity or because all your pages may be present in one folder without hierarchy, keep reading!