Nope, I'm working full-time on the Orchard CMS. I am on the internal
discussion list, have shared some opinions and thoughs on some
threads. But in terms of design, implementation, and the future -
Spark and Razor are totally unrelated.

Specifically to the question - what is the future of Spark - nothing

Microsoft's newly announced ASP.NET MVC view engine Razor:

[link]

Louis, @ Microsoft do you also work on Razor development? What's the
future for Spark, if any?

Looks like I need to create a block inheriting from IBlock in ASP.NET or
ViewComponent in MonoRail to solve this problem.

When I try to do the following
<var file='String.format("{0}/{1}", "x","_test")' />
<render partial=file />
it does not render the partial view. Instead it outputs the following in
html response
<render partial=x/_test />
(which tell me that I am missing the double quotes around the file path).
However, when I hardcode the partial view file name in my spark view, i.e

Hello,
This is my first time with Spark. I have two questions pertaining to add
Spark views:
[1] I am curious how can we add a partial spark view ( I am treating a
partial view as a user control ) to a page (another spark view) dynamically,
as opposed to adding if logic in spark file and deciding which control to

Thanks. :)
There's another feature hidden in ~ that you can find buried in the docs for the config settings.
[link]
In the spark/pages/resources section you can change your production config to replace various ~/xxx prefixes with some alternate value. Putting content on cdn, for example. Works with ISparkSettings in code also.

Fricken wicked Louis!!!!

Yep, it will expand leading ~'s in the html attributes that are known to be uri values.
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Will spark even replace "~" in a attribute??
I'm not sure that it would?
2010/7/1 Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjo...@gmail.com<mailto:asb jo...@gmail.com>>

Will spark even replace "~" in a attribute??
I'm not sure that it would?
2010/7/1 Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjo...@gmail.com>

What's the state on the VS 2010 version?

What happens: When content is placed within an HTML conditional comment, it is not evaluated by Spark and instead output as a literal string.
What's expected: Content within an HTML conditional comment should be evaluated by Spark.

Example code to reproduce:
<!--[if IE 6]>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="~/css/ie.6.css">

Hey folks,

I've not been able to configure spark to recognise areas in my asp.net
mvc 2 application.

Having perused [link]
I am unable to use the AddFilter() on my service object - the option
is simply not there.

Hopefully it is just a minor tweak that you can guys can help me with.

Or try removing or renaming the aspx/ascx file - if you keep both you end up on relying on the order view engines appear in the collection. That could be more of a side effect of an implementation detail than an explicit part of how MVC is designed.
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Currently, you have to use the C# syntax for both
Html.EnableClientValidation() and Html.BeginForm() to make it work.
However, I feel that Spark is in need of client validation support. What
would be quite neat is something like:
<form client-validation="true">
</form>
Where the 'client-validation' attribute is parsed by Spark and with it

Use ViewEngines.Engines.Clear() to remove the default view engine before registering Spark.
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Hello Christopher,

thanks for your help. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem. I

If you want to write off spark because you think it's not mature
enough, that's your decision. However, be aware that there are plenty
of real world applications already using it quite successfully.
try registering your viewengine before your routes - that's how mine are setup.

Hello Christopher,

thanks for your help. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem. I
will stop for now, maybe I will try Spark again in a few months when
it's more mature.

On 28 Jun., 01:49, Christopher Pelatari <christop...@bluefenix.net>
wrote:

I quite like {#...#}. I can't come up with any use cases that will break
it. :)
It would be nice if {#...#} could (whenever introducing a breaking change
is possible) replace <!-- --> as the default Spark comment mechanism as
well.
-Asbjørn

Instead of ViewEngines.Engines.Add, try this:
SparkEngineStarter.RegisterVie wEngine(ViewEngines.Engines);

Hello,

I'm trying to set up my first MVC Application using Spark. But I can't
get it to work. For some reason, my Application still looks for .aspx
views to render, and ignores the .spark files. What am I doing wrong?
Here's how I set upthe Spark engine:

protected void Application_Start()