For those that attended the Tampa MVC Firestarter Event on November 17, 2008 you may remember that I presented the Spark View Engine as an alternative view engine to the Webform View Engine that is used by default in the MVC Framework. In addition to Spark, you could also use NHaml, NVelocity, and Brail as possible view engines with the MVC Framework.
I really like Spark and am using it in my MVC Web Applications. It is a lot less verbose than the Webform View Engine and the developer is constantly offering useful and powerful features for use with the MVC Framework. The lack of a code-behind also keeps you from developing any bad habits that is so easy to do in ASP.NET Webforms and the Webform View Engine with their code-behinds.
Shown below is the project I presented where I converted a number of the default MVC pages and controllers to use the Spark View Engine. Notice the .spark extension on the views:
I showed a number of cool features at the event with regard to Spark and the developer has done a really nice job on the online documentation. In the documentation you will find some of the slick ways to conveniently deal with masters and views, partial rendering, strongly typing the model and dictionary contents of ViewData, etc. It is a nice view engine to use for View Development in the MVC Framework.
This is my personal preference but you may be happier with the Webform View Engine or one of the others. You won't know until you try them, however :)
Download the Spark View Engine here if you are interested.
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