ASP.NET MVC has always supported the concept of "view engines" that are the pluggable modules that implement various template syntax options. The "default" view engine for ASP.NET MVC uses the same .aspx/.ascx/.master file templates as ASP.NET Web Forms. In this article I go through the Razor View Engine to create a view of an application. "Razor" was in development beginning in June 2010 and was released for Microsoft Visual Studio in January 2011.
Razor is not a new programming language itself, but uses C# syntax for embedding code in a page without the ASP.NET delimiters: <%= %>. It is a simple-syntax view engine and was released as part of ASP.NET MVC 3. The Razor file extension is "cshtml" for the C# language. It supports TDD (Test Driven Development) because it does not depend on the System.Web.UI.Page class.
