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How can I make my views in my MVC3 Web project be compiled into my project assembly as defined in the project properties? E.g. I don't want them to be generated to a dynamic/random assembly.

The reason for this is that the views reference internal classes in a referenced library, therefore, the referenced library needs to include the MVC3 project's assembly in its assembly info.

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I believe this is a bit more complicated than one would hope but is possible (at least for compiling into another dll outside of the main assembly)
See:

http://www.chrisvandesteeg.nl/2010/11/22/embedding-pre-compiled-razor-views-in-your-dll/

Including Views in a Class Library

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Thanks, via that link I found the Razor Single File Generator VS extension from Microsoft which is what I'm trying to use now. It's not actually working (Custom tool error: Could not load generator "MvcView") but I'll post another question about that.
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I haven't personally tried this but would adding:

<PropertyGroup>    
    <EnableUpdateable>false</EnableUpdateable>    
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
</PropertyGroup>

to the project file have the desired effect?

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Actually that didn't do it. But I do like the option to compile the views ate compile time, I'll leave that in there. The views still go to a random assembly.

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