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Razor support in Visual Studio Code now in Preview

November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18
Daniel Roth
Earlier this week we released a preview of support for working with Razor files (.cshtml) in the C# extension for Visual Studio Code (1.17.1). This initial release introduces C# completions, directive completions, and basic diagnostics (red squiggles for errors) for ASP.NET Core projects. Prerequisites To use this preview of Razor support in...

Razor Improvements – Feedback Wanted

July 11, 2018 Jul 11, 2018 07/11/18
Justin Clareburt (MSFT)
Recent releases of Visual Studio 2017 focus greatly on improving the experience of working with Razor. The improvements address the most pressing customer-facing issues like formatting changes and providing general performance and reliability for IntelliSense. Now that the fixes and enhancements are publicly available, we would like to learn more about your experience with the Razor editor.

ASP.NET Core 2.1.0-preview1: Razor UI in class libraries

March 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018 03/1/18
Daniel Roth
One frequently requested scenario that ASP.NET Core 2.1 improves is building UI in reusable class libraries. With ASP.NET Core 2.1 you can package your Razor views and pages (.cshtml files) along with your controllers, page models, and data models in reusable class libraries that can be packaged and shared. Apps can then include pre-built UI ...

ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 3.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3 Beta releases

December 17, 2014 Dec 17, 2014 12/17/14
Yishai G_
While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing a Beta of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3.This preview release addresses 12 issues. Here is the full list.Highlight of issues fixedWeb API Issues2092 Significant performance ...

Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2

May 27, 2014 May 27, 2014 05/27/14
Kanchan Mehrotra (Microsoft)
The release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 are now live on the NuGet gallery!Download this releaseYou can install or update the release candidate NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 5.2, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2 using the NuGet Package Manager Console, like this: ...

ASP.NET MVC 5 Lifecycle Document Published

March 4, 2014 Mar 4, 2014 03/4/14
cephalin
Fresh out of the oven is a PDF document that charts the lifecycle of every ASP.NET MVC 5 application. Many of you have requested this document over the years and we're glad to finally put it in your hands now. You will find the PDF document very similar to the ASP.NET application lifecycle topic in its approach. It's a graphical representation...

How does VS determine which version of Razor engine to use when editing razor webpage files

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
Xinyang Qiu
In VS2013 Preview, we released new Razor V3 runtime and design time Engine to support MVC5 and Razor V3 website’s runtime and design time behavior. Unlike Razor V2 runtime and design time, VS2013 did not GAC these binaries. Instead, the binaries are installed in the project bin folder when corresponding NuGet package is installed, and in...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Web Development Tools Microsoft
We found Visual Studio 11 Beta hits a crash bug when editing a Razor page (cshtml/vbhtml) in a MVC4 project or a Razor2 Website if the indenting option for the HTML editor is set to Block instead of Smart. The workaround is to go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->HTML->Tab and change the indenting option to Smart.HTML smart indenting...

Razor tooling for MVC3 RC with Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 RTM

March 24, 2011 Mar 24, 2011 03/24/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Do you see that Razor colorization, intellisense has stopped working after you have installed Visual Studio Sp1 RTM? The reason is that you might have MVC3 RC installed on the box which is not compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 RTM. To fix, you would need to install MVC3 RTM. Following are the details of the issue.What’s the issue?...

How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project

January 20, 2011 Jan 20, 2011 01/20/11
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Many of us follow a modular architecture and create MVC3 Razor view in a separate class library project. Following  is a screenshot of the class library project that I have created. Now if I open a view with @model typed in it, I notice  that it shows squiggle for @model and no intellisense is shown. (error: There is build provider ...