Sending data from a resource to a view in a strongly-typed, but syntactically lightweight manner is not possible with C# or VB.NET.
So check out this screencast of the new "render" macro in NRest!
In a nutshell, my resource looks like:
[Resource("")]
public class RootResource
{
public Get() : void
{
def test = 42;
render (Foo = "Hello", Bar = "World", test);
}
}
My VB.NET view looks like:
Public Class RootPage
Inherits Page(Of RootPageContent)
Public Overrides Function GetHtml() As XElement
Return _
<html>
<body><%= Content.Foo %>, <%= Content.Bar %></body>
</html>
End Function
End Class
The RootPageContent DTO class is generated at compile time by the render macro. Everything is strongly-typed.