Question

I want to ship pre-compiled views. I’ve seen a few questions regarding specifying

Changing the following in the csproj

<MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>.

and

and modifying the web.config (since i am using entityframework)

<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
      <buildProviders>
        <remove extension=".edmx"/>
      </buildProviders>
 </compilation>

it now takes longer to compile which i was expecting however im not sure if it is working correctly

1. can i presume i am right in saying that if configured correctly it should actually build the views into the binary rather than just doing a precompilation validation?
2. if true then should i prevent the webdeployment from shipping the cshtmls? will the presence of them onsite cause a recompile?
3. if so this should result in a faster start time for deployed mvc applications? as they don’t need to compile the views?
4. should I add false to the csproj as well? i saw an article which suggested i should change it from true to false, but it isn’t present in my csproj.

Cheers
Tim

Answer 1

RazorGenerator seemed to be the only option to my original question which was to ship compiled views as binaries.