Creating redistributable components for MVC

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Does anyone have any idea how to create and package redistributable components for MVC3/4 websites, just like we had User controls etc with Web forms where a piece of functionality along with its UI and business logic could be modularized, packaged and reused in various other contexts, how does one go about doing this in MVC without actually sharing their source code, if it is even possible. Thanks

JonKers · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16 16:32:49Z

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You can do this using the RazorGenerator Visual Studio extension (http://razorgenerator.codeplex.com/). The documentation is quite complete but you essentially need to set the Custom Tool property on each of your views to "RazorGenerator", which generates a "[viewname].generated.cs" file (similar to the designer file in WebForms). This then compiles into your project's DLL, and you can then reference the DLL in other projects/contexts and use the compiled views in the same way as you use the project's own views. I've used this extensively in one of my projects where I defined a whole suite of Editor and Display templates and used them against my strongly typed models.

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Obi Over a year ago

Thanks this looks exactly like what I want.

LaMa · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16 16:32:44Z

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You're probably searching for a MVC view user control

you can find an example here or a simple google search for MVC view user control gives you alot of examples

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