ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison

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I've been searching on SO & Google for a breakdown of the various View Engines available for ASP.NET MVC, but haven't found much more than simple high-level descriptions of what a view engine is.

I'm not necessarily looking for "best" or "fastest" but rather some real world comparisons of advantages / disadvantages of the major players (e.g. the default WebFormViewEngine, MvcContrib View Engines, etc.) for various situations. I think this would be really helpful in determining if switching from the default engine would be advantageous for a given project or development group.

Has anyone encountered such a comparison?

viewengine spark-view-engine razor asp.net-mvc
6 Answers

I like ndjango. It is very easy to use and very flexible. You can easily extend view functionality with custom tags and filters. I think that "greatly tied to F#" is rather advantage than disadvantage.

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I think this list should also include samples of each view engine so users can get a flavour of each without having to visit every website.

Pictures say a thousand words and markup samples are like screenshots for view engines :) So here's one from my favourite Spark View Engine

<viewdata products="IEnumerable[[Product]]"/>
<ul if="products.Any()">
  <li each="var p in products">${p.Name}</li>
</ul>
<else>
  <p>No products available</p>
</else>
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