Check for razor errors during build

Question

Is there a way for Visual Studio (I\'m using 2010) to find errors within razor views during builds, in the same way as other code in a C# project would?

It\'s just a

Answer 1

Building views takes a while and the extra 10+ seconds to do a debug build can get annoying fast, so I usually only set the MvcBuildViews to true on release type build configurations. That way, if you have a build server it will catch the error for you, or you can manually run a release build every now and then to check your views.

I don't think order matters for PropertyGroup elements, but for a more complete example i included elements above and below the MvcBuildViews element.

    Debug
    AnyCPU
    ...
    v4.6.1
    false
    false
    ...



    ...
    prompt
    true
    4
    ...

The MvcBuildViews element in the top PropertyGroup was added by VS on project creation, the build configuration specific one (bottom PropertyGroup) i added manually