I am having a play around with the different view engines that one can use with ASP.net MVC. I am trying out Spark, but I am stuck on how I can get my View to be Strongly typed.
I have done the following:
<viewdata message="string" model="ComparingViewsSparkEngine.Models.LogOnModel" />
And within my view I have changed anything like this:
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName)
to be Sparky like so:
${Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName)}
But I am getting an error that says:
Dynamic view compilation failed. c:\Users\Ciwan\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\ComparingViewsSparkEngine\ComparingViewsSparkEngine\Views\Account\LogOn.spark(19,17): error CS1056: Unexpected character '$'
Update
As of the last version of the code you have this:
${using (Html.BeginForm()) {
it needs to change to this:
#using (Html.BeginForm()) {
because you're trying to write a line of pure C# code. And also then your last line can be #} instead of #}}
Not sure if this is the problem - but it looks like you haven't closed the } on Validation Summary on line 11.
And I'm pretty sure you'll also have to end the view with #}} rather than }} because the # denotes a raw line of code when you don't have a $ to start the code off.
To get around the ugly #}} stuff, I usually use Spark Bindings - you can check out my blog post on it.