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webpages:Version AppSetting in MVC

Another application configuration setting you will observe in web.config of your ASP.NET MVC application is webpages:Version <add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" /> The value for this setting currently is showing 3.0.0.0. This indicates the version of Webpages - Razor view engine is to be used. This application setting was introduced during update release of ASP.NET MVC 3 and is used to identify which Razor view engine to be used for handling webpages in your MVC application. Based on my digging into ASP.NET WebStack codebase on codeplex, Build and Revision component of version number are optional or can differ. If these two components of version number are not present or not found to be valid System.Web.WebPages.Deployment library fixes it to x.x.0.0 and returns the version number. What will » Read more

Jsinh 25 June 2014

webpages:Enabled AppSetting in MVC

If you open your web.config at root of your MVC project you will find bunch of default appsetting keys added by MVC or WebAPI. One of the appsetting with key webpapges:Enabled is added which as default value as false. So what is the deal with this appsetting? To find out the answer to this simple question I started searching ASP.NET WebStack codebase on codeplex. This appsetting is processed by the System.Web.WebPages.Deployment - WebPagesDeployment.cs code. Dry-running the code base I got answer to my query. Three possibility for the appsetting - webpages:Enabled: Key - value not added at all or not having a valid boolean value. Key - value added and set to false. Key - value added and set to true. Case 1: In this case when PreApplicationStartCode > Start method is called which in turn calls > StartCore which internaly checks » Read more

Jsinh 24 June 2014