“Razor” the new ASP.NET View Engine

Because of my work with the www.forkcan.com and the traveling around Sweden talking about ASPEN a Silverlight 4, MVVM, RIA Services, Unity 2.0, MEF application I haven’t spend so much time with blogging.

“Razor” is a new view engine for ASP.NET, you can get more information about it on Scott Guthrie’s blog. Here is an example of a old server-side script block in ASP.NET:

<h1><%: title %></h1>

<% foreach (var item in items) {%>
<span><%: item.FirstName %> <%: item.LastName %></span><br/>
<%{%>

With “Razor” the above code can look like this:

<h1>@title</h1>

@foreach (var item in items {
  <span>@item.FirstName @item.LastName</span><br/>
}

“Razor” uses a new file suffix “cshtml” or “vbhtml”, where the prefix is the language used in the file.

What I like the most with “Razor” is the new way to use expressions and the cleaner server-side code blocks.

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