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Compile aspnet mvc views (*.cshtml)

To make a long story short one can compile the views in asp net mvc.

It takes considerable time though so I only activate it for release compilations.

Update the build file with

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<MvcBuildViews Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">true</MvcBuildViews>

Like so:

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<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>

<MvcBuildViews Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' ">true</MvcBuildViews>

I am sorry about all &gt; and &lt; but I don’t have the time right now to make everything look pretty. Just replace &gt; with < and &lt; with > and your good to go.
Or follow the links below with the awesome formatting Stack overflow provides.

Honour those who should. Especially this answer that does the only-release trick.

Exception in AspnetMvc with Razor: Parser Error Message: Expected “}”.

The below text/error can occur if you have missed one of the } in jquery in a @section features{ section.

It can be hard tracking exactly which } is missing because commenting out the javascript code doesn’t change anything – it seems the razor engine doesn’t care about that type of comments.  Instead start the @section{} anew and copy-paste the code in again piece by piece.

In my case it was a totally ok javascript for loop:

for (i = 0 ; i < 12 ; i++) { }

Server Error in ‘/myApplication’ Application. 

Parser Error 

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Expected “}”.

Source Error: