ASP.NET MVC 3 supports a new view-engine option called “Razor” (in addition to continuing to support/enhance the existing .aspx view engine). Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow.

Unlike most template syntaxes, with Razor you do not need to interrupt your coding to explicitly denote the start and end of server blocks within your HTML. The Razor parser is smart enough to infer this from your code. This enables a compact and expressive syntax which is clean, fast and fun to type.

For more details

• Introducing Razor (July 2nd)
• New @model keyword in Razor (Oct 19th)
• Layouts with Razor (Oct 22nd)
• Server-Side Comments with Razor (Nov 12th)
• Razor’s @: and <text> syntax (Dec 15th)
• Implicit and Explicit code nuggets with Razor (Dec 16th)
• Layouts and Sections with Razor