Everyone is correct. My post was not how to load Razor as a replacement but as a way to call razor without using MVC. Now...what you want is most likely related to my post here How to Download Razor View Engine Where I show how to create your own ViewEngine to host a razor page. It uses the same engine @Matthew Abbott and I use for the RazorEngine - which you can get from CodePlex. Unfortunately it's not complete but it should give you an idea on how to do it. (I'll post it here too)
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Hosting;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Xml.Linq;
namespace RazorViewEngine {
/// <summary>
/// ViewEngine for the RazorView. Provides basic file handling to load views.
/// </summary>
public class RazorViewEngine : IViewEngine {
string[] SearchLocations { get; set; }
Tuple<string, string, RazorView> Cache { get; set; }
VirtualPathProvider VirtualPathProvider { get; set; }
public RazorViewEngine() {
//{1} == Controller name
//{0} == View name
SearchLocations = new string[] {
"~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
"~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml",
};
VirtualPathProvider = HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider;
}
#region IViewEngine Members
public ViewEngineResult FindPartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialViewName, bool useCache) {
return CreateView(controllerContext, partialViewName, null, null, useCache);
}
public ViewEngineResult FindView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewName, string masterName, bool useCache) {
return CreateView(controllerContext, viewName, masterName, GetLayoutPath(controllerContext), useCache);
}
/// <summary>
/// Meat of the FindView methods.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="controllerContext">The current controller context for this request.</param>
/// <param name="viewName">The requested view name. </param>
/// <param name="masterName">The master page view name (currently unused)</param>
/// <param name="layoutPath">The layout path location (Replaces the masterpage in other view engines)</param>
/// <param name="useCache">Cache the viewpage?</param>
/// <remarks>The layout path is currently hardcoded to "Layout" and will look in the SearchLocations for that path</remarks>
/// <returns>Returns a ViewEngineResult with the requested view</returns>
public ViewEngineResult CreateView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewName, string masterName, string layoutPath, bool useCache) {
//grab the current controller from the route data
string controllerName = controllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
//for proper error handling we need to return a list of locations we attempted to search for the view
string[] SearchedLocations;
//get the actual path of the view - returns null if none is found
string viewPath = GetViewPath(viewName, controllerName, out SearchedLocations);
if (viewPath != null) {
RazorView view = new RazorView(this, controllerContext, viewPath, layoutPath);
return new ViewEngineResult(view, this);
}
//we couldn't find the view - return an array of all locations we've looked in
return new ViewEngineResult(SearchedLocations);
}
/// <summary>
/// Look for the view in the current file system
/// </summary>
/// <param name="viewName">The name of the View you're looking for</param>
/// <param name="controllerName">Current controller name</param>
/// <param name="SearchedLocations">out a list of locations searched</param>
/// <returns>A string value of the relative path</returns>
public string GetViewPath(string viewName, string controllerName, out string[] SearchedLocations) {
return FindPath(viewName, controllerName, out SearchedLocations);
}
/// <summary>
/// Look for the view in the current file system
/// </summary>
/// <param name="viewName">The name of the View you're looking for</param>
/// <param name="controllerName">Current controller name</param>
/// <param name="SearchedLocations">out a list of locations searched</param>
/// <returns>A string value of the relative path</returns>
public string FindPath(string viewName, string controllerName, out string[] SearchedLocations) {
SearchedLocations = new string[SearchLocations.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < SearchLocations.Length; i++) {
string virtualPath = string.Format(SearchLocations[i], viewName, controllerName);
SearchedLocations[i] = virtualPath;
//check the active VirtualPathProvider if the file exists
if (VirtualPathProvider.FileExists(virtualPath)) {
//add it to cache - not currently implemented
return VirtualPathProvider.GetFile(virtualPath).VirtualPath;
}
}
return null;
}
/// <summary>
/// Get the layout virtual path
/// </summary>
/// <param name="controllerContext">The current Controller context for this request</param>
/// <returns>A string virtual path</returns>
public string GetLayoutPath(ControllerContext controllerContext) {
//This should probably be added to a list of locations - I'm not sure exactly
//what I need to do with this yet.
string[] locations;
return FindPath("Layout", controllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller"), out locations);
}
/// <summary>
/// Current irrelevant
/// </summary>
/// <param name="controllerContext">The active controller context</param>
/// <param name="view">View to release</param>
public void ReleaseView(ControllerContext controllerContext, IView view) {
IDisposable disposable = view as IDisposable;
if (disposable != null) {
disposable.Dispose();
}
}
#endregion
}
/// <summary>
/// Implements IView and renders a Razor
/// </summary>
public class RazorView : IView {
ControllerContext ControllerContext;
string ViewPath;
string LayoutPath;
RazorViewEngine Engine;
public RazorView(RazorViewEngine engine, ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewPath, string layoutPath) {
//load the file
this.ControllerContext = controllerContext;
this.ViewPath = viewPath;
this.LayoutPath = layoutPath;
this.Engine = engine;
}
#region IView Members
/// <summary>
/// Converts Razor to html and writes it to the passed in writer
/// </summary>
/// <param name="viewContext"></param>
/// <param name="writer"></param>
public void Render(ViewContext viewContext, System.IO.TextWriter writer) {
//View contents
string contents = new StreamReader(VirtualPathProvider.OpenFile(ViewPath)).ReadToEnd();
string layoutContents = LayoutPath == null
? null
: new StreamReader(VirtualPathProvider.OpenFile(LayoutPath)).ReadToEnd();
contents = Parse(contents);
string output;
output = contents;
writer.Write(output);
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts Razor to html
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Razor">Razor text</param>
/// <returns>Html formatted Razor text</returns>
string Parse(string Razor) {
//Where do I get the model From
return RazorEngine.Razor.Parse(Razor);
}
#endregion
}
}
