Turning off the WebFormViewEngine when using razor?
I downloaded Glimpse this morning to try it out and noticed this when I click on the views tab:
It checks all of the loaded view engines. I found where the RazorViewEngine
is specified in web.config, but I couldn't find where the WebFormViewEngine
was. Since I know my project will never have an web form view in it,
- Is it ok/safe to turn off
WebFormViewEngine
? - How can I turn off
WebFormViewEngine
?
It is perfectly OK to remove the web forms view engine if you are not using it. You can do it like:
public class Global : HttpApplication
{
public void Application_Start()
{
// Clears all previously registered view engines.
ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
// Registers our Razor C# specific view engine.
// This can also be registered using dependency injection through the new IDependencyResolver interface.
ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new RazorViewEngine());
}
}
The above method calls go in your global.asax
file.
source of code
An alternative would be to remove only the view engine you want to remove:
var webformVE = ViewEngines.Engines.OfType<WebFormViewEngine>().FirstOrDefault();
ViewEngines.Engines.Remove(webformVE);