ASP.NET MVC is an open source and highly extensible framework. You can create your own View engine by Implementing IViewEngine interface or by inheriting VirtualPathProviderViewEngine abstract class.
public class CustomViewEngine: VirtualPathProviderViewEngine {
public CustomViewEngine() { // Define the location of the View and Partial View
this.ViewLocationFormats = new string[] {
"~/Views/{1}/{0}.html", "~/Views/Shared/{0}.html"
};
this.PartialViewLocationFormats = new string[] {
"~/Views/{1}/{0}.html", "~/Views/Shared/{0}.html"
};
}
protected override IView CreatePartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialPath) {
var physicalpath = controllerContext.HttpContext.Server.MapPath(partialPath);
return new CustomView(physicalpath);
}
protected override IView CreateView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewPath, string masterPath) {
var physicalpath = controllerContext.HttpContext.Server.MapPath(viewPath);
return new CustomView(physicalpath);
}
}
public class CustomView: IView {
private string _viewPhysicalPath;
public CustomView(string ViewPhysicalPath) {
_viewPhysicalPath = ViewPhysicalPath;
}
public void Render(ViewContext viewContext, System.IO.TextWriter writer) {
//Load File
string rawcontents = File.ReadAllText(_viewPhysicalPath);
//Perform Replacements
string parsedcontents = Parse(rawcontents, viewContext.ViewData);
writer.Write(parsedcontents);
}
public string Parse(string contents, ViewDataDictionary viewdata) {
return Regex.Replace(contents, "\\{(.+)\\}", m => GetMatch(m, viewdata));
}
public virtual string GetMatch(Match m, ViewDataDictionary viewdata) {
if (m.Success) {
string key = m.Result("$1");
if (viewdata.ContainsKey(key)) {
return viewdata[key].ToString();
}
}
return string.Empty;
}
}