ASP.NET MVC 2 supports Spark!
What? hear me out. The release of ASP.NET MVC 2 includes an amazing hidden gem. You see the “Add View/Controller” dialog now takes into account a T4 directive “output extension”.
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ASP.NET MVC 2 was RTM’ed today and with the help of Jay Harris – @jayharris we upgraded our rather large codebase to not only ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM but also a new drop of the Spark View Engine built against the RTM.
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try:
If you annotate your methods with the WebGet annotation, when a client adds your service as a service ref, there will be no client configuration information.
catch:
To put that another way, if you use the WebGet annotation it’s assumed the calling party is going to use rest.
finally:
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THIS IS NOT AN OFFICAL RELEASE…YET
I spent the evening updating the spark source to support ASP.NET MVC RC/RC2. Well, actually I simply applied the changes that were posted to either the mailing list or codeplex.
All the tests pass:

Download it here:
Binaries: Spark-1.0.1.0-release.zip
Source: Spark-1.0.1.0-source.zip
This post, hopefully, won’t be up long.

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Ok, that might be going a little too far but it sounds like the barrier I wrote about a few weeks ago might be going away.
Earlier this evening Phil Haack posted this tweet:

Excited to hear this I asked a leading implementation question about honoring the output extension directive in T4 templates.

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Disclaimer: This post is my personal reflection of a current situation. It’s not intended for any other use. Don’t use this information in anyway.
Background
The previous enterprise-grade SOA architected systems I’ve worked on, last decade, were Classic ASP, Java or Webforms. These systems had their presentation layer wired directly into the services. The largest, .NET or [...]

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Background
The previous enterprise-grade SOA architected systems I’ve worked on, last decade, were Classic ASP, Java or Webforms. These systems had their presentation layer wired directly into the services. The largest, .NET or [...]

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http://github.com/detroitpro/AutoMapper.Silverlight
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