Using Razor without MVC [duplicate]

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Is it possible to use Razor View Engine outside asp.net

I need to merge templates with data to create unique strings at runtime. It was suggested that I look at the Razor templating view engine that comes in ASP.NET MVC 3. Looks great, but I need to use it outside of MVC view creation.

I know I can use the core Razor engine directly, but I've also found a couple of projects that make using Razor directly easier. Like:

1. Rick Strahl's Razor Hosting Template Engine- http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/864461.aspx
2. Razor Engine on GitHub - https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine

Does anyone have any guidance on using Razor outside of MVC as a standalone template engine? Any experience with these wrapper projects? are there other Razor hosting implementations I should look into?

Answer 1

Look at RazorTemplates library. It's more lightweight than RazorEngine library, it's thread-safe and has very nice minimal interface.

Answer 2

There is a nice post how to use RazorEngine: How to create a localizable text template engine using RazorEngine

Answer 3

You may take a look at the following blog post which illustrates how you could use the Razor view engine to render a template to a string.

Answer 4

Phil Haack posted about this way to do it using a generated class.

• You create a .cshtml file and then use a compile time extension on the file to generate a class. Then you can just do this:

  var template = new RazorTemplate {
      Model = new[] { 
          new {Name = "Scott", Id = 1},
          new {Name = "Steve", Id = 2},
          new {Name = "Phil", Id = 3},
          new {Name = "David", Id = 4}
      }
  };
  Console.WriteLine(template.TransformText());
  

Answer 5

If you want to generate real content from razor template. Please use RazorEngine.

RazorEngine

Razor Template outside MVC project

Answer 6

Found a really nice library by Jaap Lamfers:

Razor 2.0 template engine, supporting layouts (on CodeProject)

RazorMachine (on GitHub)

Qualities:

• support _ViewStart
• support Layout
• extensible (supports something like MVC ViewEngines)
• contains samples
• lots of unit tests
• it is well documented (see CodeProject link)