View page from ProjectReference not reflected without restarting main project asp.net MVC C#

Question

I am building a shared UI - razor page in a Lib project (Visual Studio), the purpose is to add the Lib project as ProjectReference to multiple places. I am stuck at finding a way to reflect the .cshtml changes immediately to the browser without restart the main project, which waits me a lot of time.

services.AddMvc().AddRazorRuntimeCompilation();

Setup line above works when I coded UI in main project, but Lib project doesn't.

More information: .Net5.0, Asp.net MVC, Razor page.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '22 at 04:20

I found the answer:

services.Configure<MvcRazorRuntimeCompilationOptions>(options =>
{
    var libraryPath = Path.GetFullPath(
        Path.Combine(builder.Environment.ContentRootPath, "..", "NameOfRazorClassLibrary"));

    options.FileProviders.Add(new PhysicalFileProvider(libraryPath));
});

View page from ProjectReference not reflected without restarting main project asp.net MVC C#

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