ASP.NET MVC rendering seems slow

Question

I\'ve created a brand new MVC4 web application in Visual Studio, and done nothing more with it than add a Home controller and a \"Hello world\" index view for it. I then instal

Answer 1

Adding to @PSL 's answer - we only ever check for `.CSHTML files

ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();

IViewEngine razorEngine = new RazorViewEngine() { FileExtensions = new string[] { "cshtml" } };

ViewEngines.Engines.Add(razorEngine);

Also, make sure you are running in Release Mode - that is absolutely critical, as ASP/Razor/MVC 'applies some pretty aggressive caching' when in release mode

in your Web.Config file.

Sam Saffron/Stack Overflow looked into view rendering performance also:

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/08/16/Oh+view+where+are+thou+finding+views+in+ASPNET+MVC3+