Check Your Razor Views Compile with MvcBuildViews=true

Instead of finding out in production that a particular view no longer compiles due to a refactoring... have the visual studio build system verify that the views compile during build.

Edit the .csproj file and set this:

<MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>

(it defaults to false)

And, according to my sources:

Note that this won't compile your views into a .dll file, this action will only check them for any compile time errors

Tugberk

Source

• How to Detect Errors of Our ASP.NET MVC Views on Compile Time - Blow up In My Face Theory