Questions tagged [viewengine]

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Custom view engine locations view model parsing issue

So I've been tinkering with View locations for an MVC app I'm working on, specifically because I need to be able to use views/routes for a parent site in a child site. Ultimately I want to be able to serve up views from a different location, say…
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Dynamic RazorViewEngine for relating controllers dedicated to partials

I'm working on what should be a minor RazorViewEngine Extension, but having some difficulty with the second part of my approach. Basically I have some controllers that are dedicated to some partial views, and would like to be able to place them in…
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MVC: no views found, no locations were searched. Now why is that?

The image of a login page (clickable image): Is it seems (though the debug viewer), the ViewEngines are both (razor+webforms, im using the first) there, in the ViewEngines collection, and them both can find the views (manually) and display them,…
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ASP.NET MVC Custom View Engine Not Being Called

I am attempting to impliment a custom view engine to serve mobile views based on the user agent. I am following Scott Hanselman's approach from this blog post. I have inherited from the WebFormsViewEngine and overridden the FindView method the same…
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ASP.NET MVC view engine performance

I'm developing high load solution with final version of asp.net mvc. Recently our team noticed, that most of the time that takes a server to response to client is devoted to page rendering. Simple time-schedule looks like this: Page start -…
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when does ReleaseView get's called?

I'm just a newbie to MVC. I've started reading Professional ASP.NET MVC3 by Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, Scott Allen I've seen a method named as `ReleaseView, when trying learning on how to create a custom view. I've googled about that…
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ASP.NET MVC 4 Areas within Areas won't render the Shared _Layout.vbhtml from Master project

Ok so I have this interesting ASP.NET MVC 4 solution/project structure, which creates pluggable application modules. I created it following this…
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The view 'Home' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched: 'sporadic error'

I am getting sporadic errors when working with my MVC 4 application when trying to return a View. In this particular case, I am about to return a View return View("Home", model); and that's where I get the msg. It also seems to sporadically happen…
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How to use Underscore.js as View Engine for Express v3

There is a question on here answering for v2, but the v3 ExpressJS api is quite different, and uses a totally different layout system. Does anyone have any experience using Underscore.js (if needed with Consolidate.js) as the main view engine for an…
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Dynamic layout for mobile visitors on ASP.NET MVC 3?

I want to dynamically change the layout, based on whether the user is accessing the site from a mobile device or not. I have a few questions on the subject. I would like to change the layout once it's determined, but before the view is rendered.…
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Using area display template from root project?

I have an area in my mvc project and this area has some display templates. If I use @Html.DisplayFor(x => Model.Image) I want to use the display template from my are for the Image. How can I configure my view engine so it also looks inside my area…
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Find the atrributes on an action from the ViewEngine in ASP.NET MVC

I've got a custom ViewEngine and I want to modify the master page used depending on if the requested action has an Authorize attribute filter. So far I'm just using reflection like this: var method =…
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How to default your asp.net-mvc site to look for razor views first?

I am converting all of my views over to razor so I have created all new view files but I haven't deleted the aspx file (I just have them excluded from the project). When i go to test my site, it seems to try to look for and load the aspx files. …
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InRequestScope provider (for custom ViewEngine) only called once at appstart

I want to inject a custom ViewEngine into my MVC website. This is what I do: private static IKernel CreateKernel() { kernel.Bind().ToProvider(new RazorViewEngineProvider()).InRequestScope(); } This is my provider: public class…
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Can I interleave two MVC view engines when searching for views?

I'm using the WebForms and Razor view engines in my MVC project. They work just fine together. However, I have an inheritance-based project set up, such that I have multiple child projects derived from a base project. With just one view engine, this…
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