1. Introduction Scott Cowansleepoverrated.com@Scottcowan

2. What is it View Engine for generating HTML (ie: ASPX) Supported by Web Frameworks ASP.Net MVC Monorail OpenRasta

3. Advantages Intellisense Breakpoints in the view Can generate a HTML from the view with Xpark.exe Very readable (<% %> tags scare people)

4. Advantages Lets you use other languages in the view C# Visual Basic IronPython IronRuby

5. Disadvantages Error pages are ugly and hard to read Intellisense hard to setup Try unistallingresharper first I feel like I’m doing ColdFusion again

6. Hello World <p>Hello ${"World"}!</p> Or you can use this if you must <p>Hello <%= "World!"%></p>

7. If blocks <test if="name == 'acme'"> acme is my favourite. <else/> ${name} is okay too I suppose. </test>

8. If Attribute <div if="name == 'alpha'">a</div> <div elseif="name == 'beta'">b</div> <else> <div>g</div> </else>

9. For loops <varnames="new[] { 'alpha', 'beta’}"/> <for each="var name in names"> ${name} </for>

10. Each Attribute <varnames="new[] { 'alpha', 'beta' }"/> <div each="var name in names"> ${name} </div>

11. ViewData View <viewdatacurrentProduct="Product"/> ${currentProduct.Name} Controller ViewData.Add("currentProduct", new Product {Name = "Acme Car"});

12. Partial Views Partial.spark <viewdataproduct="Product" /> <sample data="product"/> Shared/_sample.spark <default data="Product"/> ${data.Name}

13. Master Pages Layouts/Application.spark <usecontent="head"/> Index.spark <content name="head"> <script /> </content>

14. Inline code <varnum="2" /> # var total = num * 12; ${num} * 12 = ${total}

15. ASP.Net MVC Setup protected void Application_Start() { RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); SparkEngineStarter. RegisterViewEngine(ViewEngines.Engines); }

16. Introduction Scott Cowansleepoverrated.com@Scottcowan