Static Website Generators in MVC3 or ASP.NET in general

Question

I see a lot of projects in other languages for generating static web sites from dynamic engines. Things like Frank, Jekyll, Hyde, Webby and Poole.

There is a large list here:

http://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-generators.html

But I can't seem to find anything in the .NET space.

I find it an interesting angle of combining performance and usability on relatively static content like blogs.

But I can also see this as a great HTML based help generation system. And I don't mean API documentation, for which there seems to be a hundred projects. I mean actual application documentation or other documentation.

So, any great static website generators in the .NET space?

Answer 1

A relatively recent development is the 52 code project Pretzel - a .Net static code generator. It is worth a look if you know Jekyll.

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but for completeness I'll add http://wyam.io (open source - code at https://github.com/Wyamio/Wyam). It uses a modified version of the Razor engine from ASP.NET v5 for templating and also has support for Markdown. It's built on a modular "pipeline" concept (similar to the excellent Metalsmith JavaScript-based site generator) and is easy to extend given that the configuration files are dynamically compiled with Roslyn.

Full disclosure - I am the developer of Wyam.

Answer 3

Graze is a possible option too!

https://github.com/mikoskinen/graze