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Overview¶

If you've ever refactored a view model for an ASP.NET site, you're aware that doing so can break the view(s) that the view model is based upon. Furthermore, you won't discover this until the view is invoked at run-time. This article describes how to avoid this by forcing the views to be build at compile-time, thus revealing any issues.

Credits¶

• Thanks to Jeff Polakiewicz for showing me this.
• Adapted from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jimlamb/2010/04/20/turn-on-compile-time-view-checking-for-asp-net-mvc-projects-in-tfs-build-2010/
  

Procedure¶

1. Unload Web project

2. Edit Web Project

3. Add the MvcBuildViews line

  <PropertyGroup>

    . . . 

    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>

    . . . 

</PropertyGroup>