RazorGenerator

Generator Types

• MvcHelper: Creates a static type that is best suited for writing Mvc specific helper methods.
• MvcView: Create a WebViewPage which allows the use of precompiled MVC views.
• WebPage: Creates a WebPage type that can be used as WebPages Application Part (such as _Admin and RazorDebugger).
• WebPagesHelper: Creates a HelperPage type that is suited for precompiling and distributing WebPages helper.
• Template: Generator based on T4 preprocessed template.

Usage in an MVC app

• Install the 'RazorGenerator.Mvc' package, which registers a special view engine
• Go to an MVC Razor view's property and set the Custom Tool to RazorGenerator
• Optionally specify a value for Custom Tool Namespace to specify a namespace for the generated file. The project namespace is used by default.
• Optionally specify one of the generators in the first line of your Razor file. A generator declaration line looks like this: @* Generator: MvcHelper *@. If you don't specify this, a generator is picked based on convention (e.g. files under Views are treated as MvcViews) NOTE: The selection has other criteria such as detecting "Helper" in the filename and choosing WebPagesHelper for those.
• You'll see a generated .cs file under the .cshtml file, which will be used at runtime instead of the .cshtml file
• You can also go to the nuget Package Manager Console and run Enable-RazorGenerator to enable the Custom Tool on all the views.
• And to cause all the views to be regenerated, go to the nuget Package Manager Console and run Redo-RazorGenerator. This is useful when you update the generator package and it needs to generate different code.
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download RazorGenerator extension

in cshtml under app_code

@* Generator: MvcHelper DisableLinePragmas: true Namespace: BSS.SubProj.Web GeneratePrettyNames : true ExcludeForCodeCoverage : true*@

--helper build action none  and custom tool:RazorGenerator

--generated cs- build action compile