Differences Between Razor and ASPX View Engine in MVC

Differences Between Razor and ASPX View Engine in MVC:

View Engine renders the view into HTML form to the browser. If we talk about a MVC application in the .Net Framework, it supports the following 2 view engines:

1. Razor View Engine
2. Web Form/Aspx View Engine

Differences between Razor And ASPX View Engin:

1. Entry with ASP.NET MVC
                      
• Razor View Engine is an advanced view engine and introduced with MVC3. This is not a language but it is a markup syntax.
• ASPX View Engine is the default view engine for the ASP.NET MVC that is included with ASP.NET MVC from the beginning.
2. Namespace
   
   
   
• Razor View Engine supports System.Web.Razor.
• ASPX View Engine supports System.Web.Mvc.WebFormViewEngine.

3. Layout /MasterPage
                      
• In Razor View Engine we use Layouts.
• In ASPX View Engine we use masterPages.

PartialPage /WebUserControl

• In Razor View Engine we use PartialPage.
• In ASPX View Engine we use WebUserControls.

Extension 

• Razor View Engine has .cshtml (with C#) and .vbhtml (with VB) extension for views, Layout and Partial views.
• ASPX View Engine has a similar extension as in a simple web application like .aspx for the views, .acsx for UserControls and .master for Master Pages.
• Performance
  
  
  
• Razor Engine is a little slow compared to Aspx Engine.
• Aspx Engine is faster compared to Razor Engine.

• Syntax
  
  
  
• ‘@’ symbol uses in Razor Engine to write the code. @Html.ActionLink("Login", "LoginView")
• ‘<%:’ delimiters use as starting point and ‘ %>’ use as ending point. You can write the code between them in ASPX Engine.

<%: Html.ActionLink("Login ", " LoginView ") %>  

Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

• Razor Engine prevents Cross-Site Scripting Attacks, in other words it encodes the script or HTML tags like <,> before rendering to view.
• ASPX Engine does not prevent Cross-Site Scripting Attacks, in other words any script saved in the database will be fired while rendering the page.