Question

Is there any tool to make adding files to MVC3 razor pages faster?

I find myself having to drag script files onto the page to generate:

<script src="../../Scripts/rails.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Which then i’ll copy and paste

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/")" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then cut/drag the rails.js fragment into the new script statement. Then at some point after this hopefully I remember I need to clean up a whole bunch of duplicated and/or broken script links.

There has to be a better way than this that doesn’t involve typing urls out manually.

Answer 1

Came across this blog post earlier today and ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) and it’s guidance shows

public static string Image(this UrlHelper helper, string fileName)
{
    return helper.Content("~/assets/images/{0}".FormatWith(fileName));
}

public static string Stylesheet(this UrlHelper helper, string fileName)
{
    return helper.Content("~/assets/stylesheets/{0}".FormatWith(fileName));
}

public static string NoIcon(this UrlHelper helper)
{
    return Image(helper, "noIcon.png");
}

This seems like the optimal solution if you use a good layout scheme for your resources.

Edit: FWIW

public static string FormatWith(this string format, params object[] inputs)
{
    return string.Format(format, inputs)
}