Hello everyone,
have you heard about the Razor Engine?
If you work with MVC you are aware about view-engines. There is some view-engines like Spark and NHaml. Both can be used with .NET MVC 2, that means, NOT for .NET 4. As these two engines are open-sources, I suppose they gonna be avaible soon for .NET 4.
If you are interested in knowing better about the difference between these engines, take a look at this website.
Microsoft released the MVC 3. On this link you can download MVC 3 and read installation notes and requirements as well.
After installing MVC 3, open your Visual Studio and do the following steps (I’m using Visual Studio Express):
Creating a new project
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Note the dropdown with the Razor Engine. The other option is ASPX, what we don’t want and I’m going to show why.
So, now we have our solution ready to use Razor.
Open the file _Layout.cshtml (Yes, cshtml is the extension for razor files)
The _Layout.cshtml is how Razor calls the Master Page, that we know from ASP.NET.
It looks like that:
So that was the first part of the post about Razor. Only a simple example about how to create an MVC project using Razor.
Part 2 I’m going to show some advantages of Razor engine.
