1.0.0-beta1

This release brings Layout, _Viewstart pages support, sections and custom template namespaces. API is completely reworked.

New features

• Use ITemplateManager(string key) to resolve a templates. For files, Key - is a relative path to the view. For embeded resources - it's a name of the resourse.
• Layout pages

@model MyModel
@{
    Layout = "_Layout.cshtml"; // <- This is a key of the layout page
}

• Sections

Layout.cshtml:

@RenderSection("section-name", required : false)

View.cshtml:

@section section-name
{
    <div>It is a content inside a section</div>
}

• ViewStart pages. (Same as with ASP.NET MVC.)
• Custom namespaces. To add custom namespaces to your templates, use ITemplateConfiguration.Namespaces (ISet<string)

Breaking changes:

• ConfigurationOptions removed. Use ITemplateConfiguration instead.
• AdditionalMetadataReferences and LoadDependenciesFromEntryAssembly are removed. Use IMetadataResolver to provide an additional metadata references to RazorLight compilation service
• Parameterless constructor of RazorLightEngine was removed. Use static EngineFactory class instead.

Before:

var config = new ConfigurationOptions() { ViewsFolder = "C:/path/to/folder" }
var engine = new RazorLightEngine(config);
string result = engine.ParseFile("Test.cshtml", model);

After:

var engine = EngineFactory.CreatePhysical("C:/path/to/folder");
string result = engine.Parse("Test.cshtml", model);

• ParseFile method is removed. Use Parse method instead with a FileSystemTemplateManager to resolve a template (ParseString method is still there)

Notes

• To comply with Nuget versioning guidlines, version was changes from 0.0.1 to 1.0.0-beta1
• Package is under active development and there might be breaking changes in a new releases. I expect to ship 3-4 betas and then go to stable, sorry for inconvenience, to create something good you must create at least something and then find the room for improvements