Vici Core features

Common features

• Lightweight (about 100KB)
• Runs on .NET 3.5 and higher, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, MonoTouch and Mono
• No dependencies
• Can be used in partial trust environments

Tokenizer features

• Fully configurable by extending the core tokenizer base class or by extending one of the built-in high-level tokenizer classes
• Easy to use. No knowledge of parsing techniques is required

Expression parser features

• Evaluate any C# 2.0 expression at runtime
• Fully C# 2.0 spec compliant (operator precedence, nullable lifting, type promotion, ...)
• Late bound (objects can be passed at runtime, types are evaluated when the expression is evaluated)
• Function calls: support for member methods, static methods and delegates,
• Support for static fields, properties and classes
• Possibility to intercept field or property access at runtime
• Automatic caching of compiled expressions

Template parser

• Configurable template syntax (several syntax configurations are included, like Velocity and XML)
• Full C# expressions can be used (using Vici Parser's C# expression parser)
• Support for
• Loops (foreach)
• Conditionals (if - elseif - else)
• Macros
• Variable assignment
• Rendering source can be a file or a string (allowing in-memory template handling)