Yes, you can remove default view engines (Razor and WebForm) provided by ASP.NET MVC. protected void Application_Start() { //Remove All View Engine including Webform and Razor ViewEngines.Engines.Clear(); }
To use your custom View Engine, you need to register it by using global.asax.cs file Application_Start() method, so that the framework will use your custom View Engine instead of the default one. protected void Application_Start() { //Register Custom View Engine ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new CustomViewEngine()); //other code is removed for clarity }
ASP.NET MVC is an open source and highly extensible framework. You can create your own View engine by Implementing IViewEngine interface or by inheriting VirtualPathProviderViewEngine abstract class. public class CustomViewEngine: VirtualPathProviderViewEngine { public CustomViewEngine() { // Define the location of the View and Partial View this.ViewLocationFormats = new string[] {… Continue reading
Razor Engine is an advanced view engine that was introduced with MVC3. This is not a new language but it is a new markup syntax. Razor has new and advance syntax that are compact, expressive and reduces typing. Razor syntax are easy to learn and much clean than Web Form… Continue reading
Each view engine has following three main components: ViewEngine class – This class implements the IViewEngine interface and responsible for locating view templates. View class – This class implements the IView interface and responsible for combining the template with data from the current context and convert it to output HTML… Continue reading
A View Engine is a MVC subsystem which has its own markup syntax. It is responsible for converting server-side template into HTML markup and rendering it to the browser. Initially, ASP.NET MVC ships with one view engine, web forms (ASPX) and from ASP.NET MVC3 a new view engine, Razor is… Continue reading
There are some important namespaces as given below: System.Web.Mvc – This namespace contains classes and interfaces that support the MVC pattern for ASP.NET Web applications. This namespace includes classes that represent controllers, controller factories, action results, views, partial views, and model binders. System.Web.Mvc.Ajax – This namespace contains classes that supports… Continue reading
When an MVC application first starts, the Application_Start() method in global.asax is called. This method calls the RegisterRoutes() method. The RegisterRoutes() method creates the route table for MVC application.
Route constraints is way to put some validation around the defined route. Creating Route Constraints Suppose we have defined the following route in our application and you want to restrict the incoming request url with numeric id only.Now let’s see how to do it with the help of regular expression…. Continue reading
Many developers compare routing to URL rewriting since both look similar and can be used to make SEO friendly URLs. But both the approaches are very much different. The main difference between routing and url rewriting is given below: URL rewriting is focused on mapping one URL (new url) to… Continue reading