THE BIG COMPARISON of

ASP.NET MVC View Engines

Shay Friedman

ASP.NET MVC

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THE BIG COMPARISON of

ASP.NET MVC View Engines

WebForms, NHaml, Spark, StringTemplate, Razor

Shay Friedman Co-Founder, Trainer, Consultant

http://IronShay.com | shay@ironshay.com | @ironshay

which view engine have you used in production?

the facts

Web Forms View Engine (ASPX)

since 1996

expressiveness, explicitness

StringTemplate

since 2003

true model-view separation

Jamison

open-source

NHaml

since 2007

Andrew Peters, Steve Wagner, Simon Cropp

open-source

html is bad

Spark

since 2008

Luis DeJardin

open-source

seamless integration with HTML

Razor

since 2011

compactness and fluidness

the code

hello world

html encoded not html encoded

cast your vote!

loops

layouts

from layout

from page

cast your vote!

displaying a form

DRY!

text font size

SayHello.ascx

Page.aspx

SayHello.st Page.st

_sayHello.haml

Page.haml

cast your vote!

summary

resources

://asp.net/mvchttp

http://code.google.com/p/nhaml

http://sparkviewengine.com/

ASPX, razor:

NHaml:

Spark:

Slides + code + detailed resource list: http://IronShay.com

http://code.google.com/p/string-template-view-engine-mvc StringTemplate:

Shay Friedman | http://IronShay.com | shay@ironshay.com | @ironshay

Shay Friedman | http://IronShay.com | shay@ironshay.com | @ironshay

Thank you!