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Project templates: The lack of templates isn’t anything new. You’ve created examples 
throughout this book without them, so not having them now isn’t that big a deal. However,
it will be nice to have the convenience of project templates when Microsoft creates them.
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ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern: MVC is a development pattern that 
Microsoft is pushing very hard because it provides better control over the development pro-
cess. You can learn more about ASP.NET MVC at 
http://www.asp.net/mvc/
. Microsoft 
eventually plans to add MVC to DLR by extending MVC for IronRuby (see 
http://
github.com/jschementi/ironrubymvc
for additional details).
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Language Services Support: A new language feature that Microsoft plans to provide some-
time in the future. Details about this feature are unavailable as of this writing, but it’s likely 
that Language Services Support will somehow make DLR more flexible and able to support a 
myriad of languages.
If you read the information at 
http://www.asp.net/DynamicLanguages/
carefully, you notice that it contains a wealth of caveats. The DLR is essen-
tially an alpha version of a product that may not even appear as part of ASP 
.NET. Consequently, you need to use DLR to see what’s possible, rather than 
as a production tool for needs you have today. Anything you create using DLR 
today is likely to require updates and changes tomorrow (assuming you can 
use DLR at all). The lack of solid DLR commitment by Microsoft is one rea-
son this chapter provides an overview of ASP.NET application development, 
rather than in-depth information.
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