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

Try setting MVCBuildViews to true in your project file (i.e. edit your csproj file)

 <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>

Answer 2

Try add in mode edit of project the following assembly: System.core, according to the code:

...
<Reference Include="System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0" />
<Reference Include="System.Net.Http" />
<Reference Include="System.Net.Http.WebRequest" />
...

Sometimes this assembler not loader correctly, In My case, it worked!

Answer 3

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.

<PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    ...
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.6.1</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews>
    <UseIISExpress>false</UseIISExpress>
    ...
</PropertyGroup>

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    ...
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    ...
</PropertyGroup>

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