At the MIX conference this week, Scot Gu announced the release version of ASP.NET MVC which has been widely anticipated.

You probably heard that already in the several hundred blogs and web pages that already announced it.

What you may not have read is that there is now documentation on MSDN for MVC. This is great for anyone who has been trying to learn MVC by following the increasingly out of date (but much appreciated) blog posts from since the early days of MVC.

Check out the MVC Documentation at MSDN.

You can get the latest MVC bits over at ASP.NET Downloads.

That brings up one of the other items announced at MIX, v2 of the Web Platform Installer. This is how I would recommend that you install the updated MVC bits and anything else from ASP.NET. Note though that you need to uninstall any beta or RC first before you launch the Web Platform Installer.

The Web Platform Installer has a bunch of other web and ASP.NET bits including the ability to install apps like BlogEngine.NET and even some PHP apps that run on Windows like Drupal. And since it runs off an RSS feed it will always have the most up to date listing.

Also announced at MIX is the Silverlight 3 Beta. You can get the beta and the Web Platform Installer will install the tools for Visual Studio. I haven’t installed it myself (yet) so I don’t know if the WPI will install all the Beta bits or just the VS Tools for Silverlight 3.

Here out this interview with Scot Gu on Silverlight 3 here.

One of the coolest things released are some of the new features in Expression Blend 3. You can get the current preview of Expression Blend 3 here but what you may get really exited about is the new SuperPreview feature which is a separate download (not sure if it is also included in the Blend 3 Preview). I haven’t installed Blend 3 yet but I haven installed the SuperPreview and it is very cool. Essentially what it allows you to do is see how your web pages look in  various browsers and versions of browses automatically without having to have those browsers installed AND it helps you find the tags and attributes and styles that are causing your pages to look different in each browser. The version that was demoed could show you your pages in IE8, IE7, IE6, Safari (version?), and FireFox (version?) which is very cool. Unfortunately the SuperPreview download can only compare your currently installed version of IE with IE6 but that is still very cool. I will be checking out the Blend Preview to see if it contains the full feature or the same as what is in the SuperPreview preview.

You can read more about SuperPreview here and read the Expression team’s blog entry and watch a SuperPreview video here.

You can read a summary of yesterday’s MIX keynotes here.