ASP.Net MVC 3 Razor View Engine

ASP.NET MVC 3 introdues a new view-engine option called “Razor” which enables you to quickly integrate server code into your HTML markup with a minimum of keystrokes. Unlike most template syntaxes, you do not need to interrupt your coding to explicitly denote server blocks within your HTML. This enables a really compact and expressive syntax which is clean, fast and fun to type. Here are the quick view related to Razor view-engine in asp.net MVC 3.0.

File Extension	.cshtml for c# and vbhtml for vb.net
_(underscore)	Files that cannot be shown by direct requests (master pages, partial views etc) have underscore (_) prefix in their names. e.g. _Layout.cshtml
@	start of a server side code block. It doesn’t require you to explicitly close the code-block. (short-hand of <%= %>)
@{ code }	(Multi-line Statements) add multiple lines of server side code by wrapping it within a @{ code } block.
@( )	(Multi-Token Statements) enables a code block to have multiple tokens
@:	to explicitly indicate the start of content in the line
<text>	to render multi-line content blocks
layout page	asp.net master page is recognized in MVC
Layout <file>	layout we want to use within a ASP.NET MVC
@* comment *@	To define server side comment (like <%– –%>) )
@RenderBody	used in layout where we want the views based on this layout to “fill in” specific body content for a requested URL.
@RenderSection	define two sections within our layout that the view templates within our site can optionally choose to fill-in
@section { }	To define section
@model <StrongModelType>	define strongly-typed models
@ViewBag.<myData>	New Dynamic Controller property, It internally stores the property name/value pairs within the ViewData dictionary. It is used to pass Data Between a Controller and a View
@tempdata	To pass State Between Action Methods
Standard HTML Helpers(not a complete list)	* Html.ActionLink() * Html.BeginForm() * Html.CheckBox() * Html.DropDownList() * Html.EndForm() * Html.Hidden() * Html.ListBox() * Html.Password() * Html.RadioButton() * Html.TextArea() * Html.TextBox()
Other Helpers	Chart, Crypto, WebGrid, WebImage, WebMail, etc.

Enjoy ASP.NET MVC !!!