ASP.NET MVC "View" coding

Question

I'm extremely annoyed with the way Visual Studio works when I write inline C#/MVC in the View. I think the source is horrendous to look at, and I wonder if there aren't some alternatives available, to make the View-code look prettier.

Perhaps some kind of extension-language or pre-processing formatting...

** EDIT **

Found:

• Spark
• NHalm

any other suggestions ?

Answer 1

In general you need to avoid writing too much C# in your Views. They should contain primary HTML which should be readable. Also there are some alternative view engines to the default WebForms.

Answer 2

If you just want the existing engine to be prettier.... well, tough - it is what it is. You can try to take care when laying it out, and move common code into methods (perhaps extension methods on HtmlHelper for common code) to reduce the noise, but that's about it.

However, you are not limited this this engine - you can use any suitable template engine (or write your own).

• Best Template Engine for ASP.NET MVC
• What templating engines are available for ASP.NET MVC Framework?
• alternative asp.net MVC view engines

Answer 3

I found the Spark view engine cleans thing up.

http://sparkviewengine.com/