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+Razor
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+The Razor syntax provide a fast, terse, clean and lightweight way to combine server code with HTML to create dynamic web content.
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+This project is part of ASP.NET vNext. You can find samples, documentation and getting started instructions for ASP.NET vNext at the [Home](https://www.github.com/aspnet/home) repo.