Question

I am designing a project in MVC3 ASP.NET. This project is a website. Should I use ASPX pages in place of view (CSHTML) ?

Which one is more efficient way to do view (CSHTML or ASPX) ?

I’am very fresh in MVC3 ASP.NET. Please suggest me.

Answer 1

You are comparing Razor (cshtml) to WebForms (aspx). Both are view engines so one can replace the other.

I find Razor more efficent to work with as it tends to be less markup and it fits nice with HTML. Webforms tends to be alot about tag soup and <% all over the place.

Here is a comparison from another SO thread:

Webforms:

<% if(someCondition) { %>
  <ol>
  <% foreach(var item in Model) { %>
     <li><%: item.ToString() %></li>
  <% } %>
  </ol>
<% } %>

Razor equivalent:

@if(someCondition) {
   <ol>
   @foreach(var item in Model) {
      <li>@item.ToString()</li>
   }
   </ol>
}

You should experiment and read up on both and make your own opinion on which to use.