Question

How can I remove the VB Razor Engine or configure the RazorViewEngine to not use and look for .vbhtml files on disk? For new ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor projects, I always remove the WebFormViewEngine in Application_Start because I won’t ever be using it and so I don’t need it to search for .aspx, .ascx or .master files on disk. For this same reason I would like to avoid .vbhtml file searching.

Answer 1

This is the code for your custom view engine:

public class CSRazorViewEngine : RazorViewEngine {

    public CSRazorViewEngine() {

        base.AreaViewLocationFormats = new string[] { 
            "~/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/Areas/{2}/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
        };

        base.AreaMasterLocationFormats = new string[] { 
            "~/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/Areas/{2}/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
        };

        base.AreaPartialViewLocationFormats = new string[] { 
            "~/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/Areas/{2}/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
        };

        base.ViewLocationFormats = new string[] {
            "~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
        };

        base.PartialViewLocationFormats = new string[] {
            "~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
        };

        base.MasterLocationFormats = new string[] {
            "~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml"
        };

        base.FileExtensions = new string[] { "cshtml" };
    }
}

Register this on Application_Start method like this:

ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new CSRazorViewEngine());