Razor – view engine for ASP.NET

Razor is a new view engine for ASP.NET. We know that view engines are pluggable modules that implement different templates syntax options. We have .aspx/.ascx/.master as the default view engine for ASP.NET MVC. This is optimized around HTML generation using a code-focused templating approach. “Razor” uses a new file suffix “cshtml” or “vbhtml”, where the prefix is the language used in the file.

Razor has the following features

• Razor minimizes the number of characters in coding which brings a cleaner server side code.
• Easy to learn and use the existing coding skills
• Works in any text editor
• Full intellisense support in Visual Studio 2010

Let’s examine how the new Razor syntax looks like. Following the common server side code snippet

<% foreach(var student in students) %>

<%{%>

<% student.Name %>

<%}%>

Now we have the following simple Razor syntax as follows.

@ foreach(var student in students)

{

@ student.Name

}

Hey it gives a clean server side code.