Using Razor without MVC [duplicate]

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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?

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-26 18:27:16Z

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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, 2011 at 18:27

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alexey · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-20 11:22:18Z

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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, 2012 at 11:22

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K-Dawg Over a year ago

I thought I'd check this out. It's so simple to use! Thanks!

Marcos Dimitrio · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-18 21:57:42Z

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

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Michael Levy Over a year ago

that link was in the original question.

Simon_Weaver · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-05 01:56:17Z

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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 5, 2012 at 1:56

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Norman H Over a year ago

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. :-)

Malkov · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-19 14:16:24Z

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

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Miguel Angelo · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-22 17:04:17Z

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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)

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answered Nov 22, 2012 at 16:55

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