Question

First and foremost reason to update big old MVC2 project for me is the Razor engine. Now following this instructions
I successfully converted the project without yet touching .aspx and .ascx files.

1) Can you guys tell me now, how can I convert Master pages to layouts, and start converting pages and user controls without breaking any existing MVC2 pages? (it’s a large project, can’t do them all at once). Can I somehow use old master pages as layouts in razor pages?

I converted a couple of partial aspx pages which don’t use a master page.
I used Telerik’s aspx2razor converter – it helps although you still have to do a lot of manual revisions.

2) Is there any other better tool out there?

Answer 1

You can use Razor and the normal views side by side. By default, MVC3 looks for razor first, then will fall back to the WebFormsViewEngine.

So you should have no problem, and you can tackle each page in time as you see fit.