I\'m very new to MVC...I have quite a bit of knowledge with Silver-light and WPF and MVVM but little knowledge in regards to MVC. I\'m following along the main tutorial on Micr
The "extra third party dlls or code" you would be relying on are well established and absolutely no brainers to include. You copy it once and forget about it. It's not like you have to hunt them down, either. It's very easy Xcopy deployment.
As you have seen, the MS MVC site uses Razor. Most (all?) of the sites and books I read are using Razor.
Use Razor, and you'll find a lot more help than with aspx in MVC.