Running a custom VirtualPathProvider with a PreCompiled website
- by epilog
Hi, currently I have a custom VirtualPathProvider in a Asp.net MVC web application.
This VirtualPathProvider checks the Area from the route "/{Area}/{Controller}/..." and uses the NameSpace.{Area}.Main.dll module to return the views that are contained in that assembly as Embedded Resources.
This works great and I don't have to deploy any ascx, js, css files.
Now my problem is this:
I would like to precompile the aspx and ascx files in the assembly and instead of having the views as embedded resources I would have the view class with all the Response.Write and dings and dongs.
I can precompile the views using the aspnet_compiler but I keep getting an error when ever the ViewEngine tries to find the view and fails.
My main goal is to have a way for the first time usage of a certain view/usercontrol would be faster and don't wait for the compilation to happen.
This is a requirement since the application could be grouped into plugins and this plugins be deployed into the Bin directory.
Any thoughts?
With best regards
Carlos Sobrinho
