So what is AspView?

It is a Visual Studio 2005 friendly ViewEngine implementation.

The scripting is done using VisualStudio languages (c# and VB.NET). The views are precompiled, (or can be compiled on-demand, but anyway not interpreted).

The project was inspired by the Brail ViewEngine, but since it doesn't use Boo it is more Management-Friendly, since they need not worry about getting out of the "safe" microsoft world.

I tend to like Boo as a language very much, and I like Brail a lot, too (since it allows for less code in the view thanks to the Boo magic) but I lack the tight Visual Studio integration (opening .boo files in #Develop messes up my desktop), and the intellisense is quite important, at least for the developers I worl with.

So I will post in the next few days about it, and I'll make it available to be downloaded (source and binary) as soon as I'll test it a little more. I hope to have a public svn repository soon.

A little demo view:

   1:  <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="Castle.MonoRail.Views.AspView.ViewAtDesignTime" %>
   2:  <%
   3:      string[] strings;
   4:  %>
   5:   
   6:   
   7:  hello from index<br />
   8:  This are the strings:<br />
   9:  <%  foreach (string s in strings) { %>
  10:        <%=s %><br />
  11:  <%  } %>
  12:          
  13:  <br />
  14:  End of normal view
  15:  <br />
  16:  <% OutputSubView("Home/SubViewSample"); %>