How to select different View Engine in VS 2015 Community

Sumit Sharma

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I am trying to play around with different view engines. Whenever I am trying to add View from Controller, There's nothing available to select ViewEngine as we are avail in VS2010.

How can I select Spark or ASPX in VS 2015?

NOTE :

1. I have installed Spark from NuGet.

2. Create Spark folder next to Razor and ASPX folders under "AddView" folder.

3. Checked Spark reference in my project.

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Sumit Sharma9y ago
I have tried your mentioned solution, But no where I got option to select SPARK view template. I would like to request you to attach screenshot of solution, So I may get clear picture how it things will work.

Thanks in advance.
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Karthik Elumalai9y ago
Hi sumit,

If you want the "Spark" view engine to be listed, then, we need to register "Spark View Engine" templates.

Step 1: Navigate to the following path and create a folder with name="Spark". Spark specific templates must be copied into "Spark" folder.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC 4\CodeTemplates\AddView

Step 2: Create an xml file with in "Spark" folder. The name of the XML file must be "ViewEngine.xml" and must contain the following xml content.

ViewFileExtension=".spark"
DefaultLayoutPage="~/Views/Shared/_Layout.spark"
PartialViewFileExtension=".spark" />

Now, right click on any controller action method and select "Add View" from the context menu. Notice that, "Spark" view engine is also listed.

Source: http://csharp-video-tutorials.blogspot.in/2013/06/part-31-using-custom-view-engines-with.html

Hope it will surely solve your problem.

Thanks
Karthik
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Sumit Sharma9y ago
@Karthik Thank you for your reply. But my problem is, If I already created project in MVC and added spark view engine after that. Then I won't be avail with Spark view template on "Add View" option.
Now this point of time how I will get other view engine(s) templates as I am getting for Razor.
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Karthik Elumalai9y ago
Hi sumit,

I found an answer for you, here is the link

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28996598/how-to-change-the-view-engine-in-visual-studio-2015-enterprises-edition.html

Hope this will be surely helpful for you ,kindly let me know thoughts or feedbacks
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