Sharing Razor views across projects

Question

I want to share the layout (Header, Navigation and Footer Razor views) across multiple ASP.NET MVC projects. How can I do that?

Can I create a custom NuGet package t

Answer 1

Three approaches:

1. Share the Razor view source code using your version control system
2. Compile the views into a separate DLL file for binary sharing.
3. Create a NuGet package

See Compile your ASP.NET MVC Razor views into a separate DLL for how you do option 2.

For option 3, see Creating and Publishing a Package.

In fact, I think this is the original article on how to compile Razor views: Precompile your MVC Razor views using RazorGenerator