The View engine and the Razor View engine
As discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction to ASP.NET Core, a browser can only understand HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The purpose of the View engine is to generate the HTML code from your View and send it to the browser so that it can understand the content. Primarily, there are two different types of View engines—Razor View engine and Webform View engine. Although these two View engines come out of the box with ASP.NET MVC, you can use any custom View engine.
Razor View engine
The Razor View engine is the default and recommended View engine in ASP.NET Core, and going forward, this may be the only View engine coming out of the box when you install ASP.NET MVC.
You can mix a C# code and HTML code in your Razor View and the Razor View engine is intelligent enough to distinguish between these two and generate the expected output. In some scenarios, we may have to give additional information to Razor View to produce the appropriate results. Razor code blocks...
