[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming ASP.NET MVC 2 release.  This blog post covers the new strongly-typed HTML helpers added with ASP.NET MVC 2. Existing HTML Helper Methods ASP.NET MVC 1 shipped with a set of HTML helper methods that can be used within view templates to help with the generation of HTML UI.  For example, to output a textbox you could write code (within your .aspx view template) using the Html.TextBox() helper method below: The first parameter to the helper method above supplies the name/id for the textbox, and the second parameter specifies the value it should…(read more)