How to set up visual studio to create CSHTML files in (Umbraco) Project

Question

So, i'm developing my razor macroscripts in Visual studio for my Umbraco project. Everything is working fine, but there are two things really annoying.

• If I want to make a new CSHTML file the best solution for this is to duplicate an existing file.
• I dont have full razor IntelliSense like e.g. Html.Raw

Is there a way to configure my project to use this features? Didn't find a .cshtml template yet.

Answer 1

You need to have the MVC Framework installed, then when you open the project as a website, you should be able to create and edit cshtml files with syntax highlighting. See my answer to the following post for more details:

Setting up local development environment for Umbraco

Answer 2

If your project is a web site/application then the mvc templates aren't available (they only show up in MVC projects). You can just create a text file and name it with the .cshtml extension though (you could set up your own template for this in VS if you wanted to).

To get intellisense in your Razor files, see Doug Robar's blog post on the subject