ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison

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Published on 2009-09-20T15:47:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 21:25 UTC
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EDIT: added a community wiki to begin capturing people's experience with various View Engines. Please respectfully add any experiences you've had.

I've been searching on SO & Google for a breakdown of the various View Engines available for ASP.NET MVC, but haven't found much more than simple high-level descriptions of what a view engine is.

I'm not necessarily looking for "best" or "fastest" but rather some real world comparisons of advantages / disadvantages of the major players (e.g. the default WebFormViewEngine, MvcContrib View Engines, etc.) for various situations. I think this would be really helpful in determining if switching from the default engine would be advantageous for a given project or development group.

Has anyone encountered such a comparison?

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