There's an old saying, "Good things come to those who wait." I remember when I first joined the ASP.NET MVC project, I (and many customers) wanted to include a new streamlined custom view engine. Unfortunately at the time, it wasn't in the card since we had higher priority features to implement. Well the time for a new view engine has finally come as announced by Scott Guthrie in this very detailed blog post . While I'm very excited about the new streamlined syntax, there's a lot under the hood I'm also excited about. Andrew Nurse , who writes the parser for the Razor syntax, provides more under-the-hood details in this blog post . Our plan for the next version of ASP.NET MVC is to make this the new default view engine, but for backwards compatibility...(read more) ...
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