Asp.Net MVC HTML Helper Alternative
Posted by coreycoogan on June 11, 2009
I’m still learning ASP.NET MVC and gearing up for 2 projects. At first glance of a typical View, I had a classic ASP flashback. Now that I understand how it really works, I see that the only commonality is the use of the ASP delimiter tags (<%%>).
I’m not real crazy with the default ASP.NET MVC view engine and have examined some alternatives, such as MVC Contrib and Spark. A new strategy has emerged however, developed by Eric Hexter. Eric is dubbing his project Opinionated Input Builders. It’s very early stage, but it’s definitely interesting and worth checking out.
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Tyler Plog said
There is a wonderful Atom Publishing tool out called AtomSite which is Open Source and built on ASP.NET MVC. It actually used to be a blog generator that has recently been upgraded to the MVC framework, and you can tell that it is a work in progress. After following the AtomSite code and attempting to debug through it I have been confronted with the learning curve that understanding the new MVC Arcitecture, my particular focus was on the relationship between the View and the Model. I had a particularly hard time following the flow of logic as the debugger frequently flips back and forth between ASP and C# Code. Regardless, I felt that the AtomSite Solution was a good way to get my feet wet in MVC, others may find that as well. I’ll be anticipating hearing more from you on your own adventure!