Using custom VirtualPathProvider to load embedded resource Partial Views

Question

I wrote custom VirtualFile and VirtualPathProvider implementations that are successfully obtaining embedded resources that are Partial Views.

However, when I attempt

Answer 1

Because now you are serving your views from some unknown location there is no longer the ~/Views/web.config file which applies and indicates the base class for your razor views (). So you could add an @inherits directive at the top of each embedded view to indicate the base class.

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage
@model ...