Add both engines and consolidate.js in your package.json In yourapp.js var engines = require(‘consolidate’); app.engine(‘jade’, engines.jade); app.engine(‘handlebars’, engines.handlebars); More info here
I guess the best approach would be to use the Raw extension-method: @Html.Raw(Model.Something)
A simple solution would be to, in your Appication_Start get hold of the appropriate ViewEngine from the ViewEngines.Engines collection and update its ViewLocationFormats array and PartialViewLocationFormats. No hackery: it’s read/write by default. protected void Application_Start() { … // Allow looking up views in ~/Features/ directory var razorEngine = ViewEngines.Engines.OfType<RazorViewEngine>().First(); razorEngine.ViewLocationFormats = razorEngine.ViewLocationFormats.Concat(new string[] { “~/Features/{1}/{0}.cshtml” … Read more
Start the comment block with @*, end the comment block with *@. Similar to C# (/* and */) @* single line comment *@ or @* this is a comment this is another *@ More on Razor comments on the Gu’s blog.
Unit Testable: The new view engine implementation will support the ability to unit test views (without requiring a controller or web-server, and can be hosted in any unit test project – no special app-domain required). At last!!! Can’t believe it took almost 8 years for Microsoft to finally bring a view engine that supports this.
Fixed in ASP.NET MVC 4 see http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/02/16/asp-net-4-beta-released.aspx Conditional attribute rendering If you have an attribute that might be null, in the past you’ve needed to do a null check to avoid writing out an empty attribute, like this: <div @{if (myClass != null) { <text>class=”@myClass”</text> } }>Content</div> Now Razor is able to handle that automatically, … Read more
Here’s a couple more: NHaml Spark Brail (can be used standalone) About NVelocity, it has been forked by the Castle guys, it’s being developed here For emails, I’ve never needed more than NVelocity.
The view engine is responsible for creating HTML from your views. Views are usually some kind of mixup of HTML and a programming language. The pattern behind most of these is called two-step view. For example, ASP.NET comes with its own view engine out of the box. That is the one where views have lots … Read more
This is in fact not possible today using the public API (other than using the section redefinition approach). You might have some luck using private reflection but that of course is a fragile approach. We will look into making this scenario easier in the next version of Razor. In the meantime, here’s a couple of … Read more
ASP.NET MVC View Engines (Community Wiki) Since a comprehensive list does not appear to exist, let’s start one here on SO. This can be of great value to the ASP.NET MVC community if people add their experience (esp. anyone who contributed to one of these). Anything implementing IViewEngine (e.g. VirtualPathProviderViewEngine) is fair game here. Just … Read more