Using ASPX View Engine with MVC 5

Question

Is it possible to use ASPX view engine with MVC 5?

We have a product using MVC 4 on ASPX view engine and we want to migrate to MVC 5, however, when I create a new p

Answer 1

This is what a blog post regarding the release of VS2013 said: "The HTML editor used by Razor files (.cshtml and .vbhtml) as well as normal HTML files has been replaced with entirely new code. Web Forms (.aspx and .ascx) involve significantly more complexity and did not fit into a well-polished release for Visual Studio 2013, so they will be updated in an upcoming product release. " Source:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/06/27/html-editing-features-in-visual-studio-2013-preview.aspx

Answer 2

It's installed by default. just check out the ViewEngines.Engines collection. Its output are:

• System.Web.Mvc.WebFormViewEngine
• System.Web.Mvc.RazorViewEngine