Using Razor without MVC

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I need to merge templates with data to create unique strings at runtime. It was suggested that I look at the Razor templating view engine that comes in ASP.NET MVC 3. Looks great, but I need to use it outside of MVC view creation.

I know I can use the core Razor engine directly, but I've also found a couple of projects that make using Razor directly easier. Like:

Rick Strahl's Razor Hosting Template Engine- http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/864461.aspx
Razor Engine on GitHub - https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine

Does anyone have any guidance on using Razor outside of MVC as a standalone template engine? Any experience with these wrapper projects? are there other Razor hosting implementations I should look into?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '11 at 18:27

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You may take a look at the following blog post which illustrates how you could use the Razor view engine to render a template to a string.

answered Jan 26 '11 at 18:27

Darin Dimitrov

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '12 at 11:22

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Look at RazorTemplates library. It's more lightweight than RazorEngine library, it's thread-safe and has very nice minimal interface.

answered Nov 20 '12 at 11:22

alexey

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I thought I'd check this out. It's so simple to use! Thanks! – K-Dawg Feb 12 '19 at 12:06

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 18 '19 at 21:57

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If you want to generate real content from razor template, you can use RazorEngine.

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Marcos Dimitrio

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answered Aug 14 '11 at 06:05

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that link was in the original question. – Michael Levy Aug 14 '11 at 18:12

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 05 '12 at 01:56

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Phil Haack posted about this way to do it using a generated class.

You create a .cshtml file and then use a compile time extension on the file to generate a class. Then you can just do this:

var template = new RazorTemplate {
    Model = new[] { 
        new {Name = "Scott", Id = 1},
        new {Name = "Steve", Id = 2},
        new {Name = "Phil", Id = 3},
        new {Name = "David", Id = 4}
    }
};
Console.WriteLine(template.TransformText());

answered Nov 05 '12 at 01:56

Simon_Weaver

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Simple takes the day in my book. Thanks for dropping this @Simon_Weaver! You seem like a guy who might just hang out with @JonSkeet you have so much SO cred! :-) It pays to dig through all the answers. :-) – Norman H Feb 16 '15 at 20:17

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 14:16

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There is a nice post how to use RazorEngine: How to create a localizable text template engine using RazorEngine

answered Apr 19 '12 at 14:16

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Miguel Angelo · Answer 6 · 2012-11-22T17:04:17.673

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Found a really nice library by Jaap Lamfers:

Razor 2.0 template engine, supporting layouts (on CodeProject)

RazorMachine (on GitHub)

Qualities:

support _ViewStart
support Layout
extensible (supports something like MVC ViewEngines)
contains samples
lots of unit tests
it is well documented (see CodeProject link)

edited Nov 22 '12 at 17:04

answered Nov 22 '12 at 16:55

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Using Razor without MVC

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