MVC 3 View engine Razor and comparision!

Benefits over Razor are

1. Can be hosted outside ASP.NET
2. Can unit test views (no need of controller or web-server)
3. Better intellesense support on VS.NET
4. Everything is encoded by default
5. Executing it from a console app is possible
6. Much cleaner
7. There’s no need to specify the language, because it’s included in the extension
8. No need to explicitly specify a master page
9. No external dependencies as it has been shipped with MVC 3 (System.Web.Mvc.dll)
10. and lot more

Below are the urls you could enjoy reading over the major 4 view engines, it’s awesome. Just including here as it would help some one over there.

1. http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Developer-Review-Four-ASPNET-MVC-View-Engines
2. http://ironshay.com/post/The-Big-View-Engine-Comparison-e28093-Razor-vs-Spark-vs-NHaml-vs-Web-Forms-View-Engine.aspx