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Asked: 2026-06-09T05:21:28+00:00

I am using the Razor engine https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine to parse the body of my email

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I am using the Razor engine https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine to parse the body of my email templates. Is it possible to define a layout and include other .cshtml files? for example a common header and a footer.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I got common templates and a layout working, with the help of these two posts:

    RazorEngine string layouts and sections?

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hongyes/archive/2012/03/12/using-razor-template-engine-in-web-api-self-host-application.aspx

    This is my solution:

    Solution 1:
    Layout

    Used by setting _Layout

    @{
    _Layout = "Layout.cshtml";
    ViewBag.Title = Model.Title;
 }

    Footer

    @section Footer 
{
   @RenderPart("Footer.cshtml")
}

    Layout.cshtml

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            @RenderBody()
        </div> 
        @if (IsSectionDefined("Footer"))
        { 
            <div id="footer">
                @RenderSection("Footer")
            </div>
        }
    </body> 
</html>

    TemplateBaseExtensions

    Extend TemplateBase with a RenderPart Method

    public abstract class TemplateBaseExtensions<T> : TemplateBase<T>
{
    public string RenderPart(string templateName, object model = null)
    {
        string path = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ApplicationBase, "Templates", templateName);
        return Razor.Parse(File.ReadAllText(path), model);
    }
}

    Razor Config

    Set BaseTemplateType to your TemplateBaseExtensions class

    TemplateServiceConfiguration templateConfig = new TemplateServiceConfiguration
{
     BaseTemplateType = typeof(TemplateBaseExtensions<>)
};

Razor.SetTemplateService(new TemplateService(templateConfig));

    Edit Solution 2:

    If you are using a TemplateResolver. RenderPart isn’t needed use the @Include instead

    Footer

    @section Footer 
{
   @Include("Footer.cshtml")
}

    Resolver

    public class TemplateResolver : ITemplateResolver
{
    public string Resolve(string name)
    {
        if (name == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("name");
        }

        string path = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ApplicationBase, "Templates", name);
        return File.ReadAllText(path, System.Text.Encoding.Default);
    }
}

    Config

    TemplateServiceConfiguration templateConfig = new TemplateServiceConfiguration
{
     Resolver = new TemplateResolver()
};
Razor.SetTemplateService(new TemplateService(templateConfig));

    Update by The Muffin Man
    Specify a template and render a string

    var templateResolver = Razor.Resolve("Registration.cshtml");
return templateResolver.Run(new ExecuteContext());

    Also I, along with others at this link https://github.com/Antaris/RazorEngine/issues/61 had issues with using _Layout whereas Layout worked.

    ‘_Layout’ is the old syntax. It was updated to ‘Layout’ in a future release.

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