One of the best things about ASP.NET is that most things in it are pluggable. If you find something doesn’t work the way you want it to, you can swap it out for something else.

The next release of ASP.NET MVC will include a new “Add->View” dialog that makes it easy for you to choose the syntax you want to use when you create a new view template file.  It will allow you to easily select any of of the available view engines you have installed on your machine – giving you the choice to use whichever view approach feels most natural to you:

Razor will be one of the view engine options we ship built-into ASP.NET MVC.  All view helper methods and programming model features will be available with both Razor and the .ASPX view engine. 

You’ll also be able to mix and match view templates written using multiple view-engines within a single application or site.  For example, you could write some views using .aspx files, some with .cshtml or .vbhtml files (the file-extensions for Razor files – C# and VB respectively), and some with Spark or NHaml.  You can also have a view template using one view-engine use a partial view template written in another.  You’ll have full choice and flexibility.