Autodiscovery and compilation of Razor views via embedded providers

[danroth27]

Consider supporting Razor views as embedded resources out of the box.

[Antaris]

I'd be interested to know how you plan to enable debugging for these embedded views? I'm already supporting embedded views in my ASP.NET Core app, but can't easily debug them.

[pranavkm]

@Antaris an option we were exploring here was to rely on a Roslyn feature that would allow us to embed sources for views in generated pdbs. Here's the discussion for it - dotnet/roslyn#12625. Note: the feature hasn't landed and requires follow up work in the debugger to know how to get to these sources, so it'll be a while for the feature to light up.

At present, you have to point to files on disk for the debugger to find them. You could consider using a PhysicalFileProvider that points to the source project when developing locally and switching to an embedded one when you're deploying.

[Eilon]

Given that we have good support for pre-compiling Razor views, we are closing this issue.