Light-weight alternative to MVC 3 for Asp.net?

Question

I simply need to iterate through data in a loop and pass some strings through a ViewBag type collection. MVC 3 does the job but in many cases I find it too complex for my needs. Is there anything closer to the Rails View for Asp.net? (I know about Spark).

Answer 1

You can use razor without MVC 3. However, I believe that how light, heavy or complex your MVC 3 code is, depends on the developer, as MVC 3 gives you much more control than Web Forms. if you follow best practices, I would expect an MVC 3 app to be much lighter weight than an equivalent web forms app unless the app is just one or two pages. There is a learning curve but I think that MVC 3, Razor and the Entity Framework are well worth investing the time in learning them.

Answer 2

Well, there's WebMatrix which is a lightweight version of ASP.NET MVC. It actually represents only the V(iew) part of MVC.