In this episode we are going to start a series where we take an indepth look at the Spark View Engine.

Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly.

Monorail is the model-view-controller engine of the Castle Project, bringing many of the best ideas of Ruby on Rails to the .NET world.

In this session, David De Florinier and Gojko Adzic show how Monorail makes it easy to develop .NET based AJAX applications, and how to use the Castle Pr...

Mono, is an alternative open source implementation of the CLI spec. It's a compiler implementation and a library implementation and they can be use separately. What that means is that you can compile with Mono, run against their libraries, or you can compile on MSFT and run against their libraries......

It's a quick walkthrough on how you can get a baseline MonoRail solution up and running. Yeah, I know. Everyone's talking about MS MVC these days, and I'm certainly just as excited about it as anyone else. But MonoRail is still a very nice MVC framework that can be fully leveraged now.