Questions tagged [viewengine]

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Using a custom RazorViewEngine AND RazorGenerator precompiled views

I am trying to use a custom (derived) RazorViewEngine AND precompiled views using RazorGenerator. Some context: We have a base product that we use for multiple client implementations. With that we have a core set of base views. Most of the views…
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Where can I find some quality tutorials that take me through the anatomy of an MVC view?

My background is mostly in desktop applications on the Microsoft platform. I've been working a lot with ASP.Net MVC lately and completely skipped over learning webforms. I find I'm having the most trouble (not being a web guy) with writing my…
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ASP.NET MVC Use Controller or View outside of the MVC application context

Hello i am creating a small webpage that give our users an interface to search in our database. This website must supply 2 webservice functions, Search(string searchString) and GetAccountInfoByInitials(string initials) I would like to use my…
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MVC 5 View Engines

I have recently started learning MVC5 (using Visual Studio 2015 Community), so I have a question about view engines. Could someone pleased explain a bit about MVC5 view engines? I'm little bit confused, because if I, say, rename my Index.cshtml view…
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How to pass and use model in Dotliquid ViewEngine

In my MVC web-application project I'm using Dotliquid.ViewEngine to automatically render my view as it said in the related blog post.I have a class inherited from "Drop" like this public class FakeProduct : Drop { public string Name { set; get;…
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how can i add custom theme support in only an area?

i am very new to asp.net mvc and trying to build a small CMS with theme support. while i was researching the subject on the net, i've found some examples but none of them helped me exactly. here is my folder structure. i have 2 Areas. it was working…
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C# string format json to json without having to replace input to double braces

I have a json template (example: jsonTemplate = "{ \"title\" : \"{0}\", \"desc\" : \"{1}\" }" And I need to format by an object or params. When using string format of .NET, it'll be: string.Format(jsonTemplate, "My Title", "My Description"); And…
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erb <% expression -%> in aspx pages

Do asp.net aspx views have tags that that work similar to the Ruby erb <% -%> ? I don't like all these line breaks in my asp.net mvc generated html. As for the other view engines (nhaml, spark, razor) I don't want to use them yet. Quick example of…
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View engine that supports both ajax and direct calls

I'm looking for a way to serve a template in Node.js (Express) both "normally" rendered as HTML and rendered as JSON, if it was requested with ajax. Let's say I have a template like this in swig: {% extends 'layout.html' %} {% block title %}Default…
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How nopcommerce plug-in is loaded view?

How is the nopcommerce plug-in loaded in the view? The ThemeableRazorViewEngine view rewrite engine found no relevant information and Plugins.
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Exception on checking for existance of file at server in unit test using mocked httpcontext

I am getting an exception - System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Result StackTrace: at System.Web.WebPages.FileExistenceCache.<.ctor>b__4(String path) at…
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Custom View Engine in ASP.NET MVC 2 does not work with Areas

I used the code below so far with ASP.NET MVC v1 and v2 but when I added an Area today to my application, the controller for the area couldn't find any views in my Areas/Views/controllerView folder. It issued the very well known exception that it…
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Node js hbs module and engine

I'm new to node js and came across this hbs module and saw it in this part code for example : app.set('view engine', 'html'); app.engine('html', require('hbs').__express); can anyone please explain what is hbs (handlebars - but what does it…
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Literals that precede { in spark view engine

I was going through the spark view engine documentation and found a lot of literals showing up in code for which I couldn’t find any references. For e.g. ! , #, $ , !$ , ... What are these for? What do the combinations mean? When do they come…
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Is it possible to use different view engines for different views in the *same* ASP.NET MVC website?

I'd like to experiment with NHaml. Can I use the NHaml view engine for a few of my views, without having to convert the entire application (or create a new prototype application)?
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