Had to implement a webshop section for an ASP.NET MVC website project which was to be reused by another one. Solving it was a bit finicky, so documenting it roughly here in case I need to do it again in the future. Not sure I remember all the steps, but hopefully it’ll be enough to reproduce the effect:P

The main problem here is the way razor views are compiled run-time and that is solved by using the Razor Generator VS extension to pre-compile the views and the belonging RazorGenerator.Mvc Nuget package to enable the web application to find them during run-time.

Don’t know if the solution I ended up with is the best, but it worked fairly great. If you have better/cleaner solutions please leave a comment 🙂

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