Razor compiler no longer produces a Views assembly

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Razor compiler no longer produces a Views assembly

The Razor compiler no longer produces a separate Views.dll containing the CSHTML views defined in an application.

Version introduced

.NET 6 Preview 3

Old behavior

The Razor compiler utilized a two-step compilation process that produced a main AppName.dll assembly containing application types and an AppName.Views.dll assembly that contains the generated views defined in the application. Generated view types were public and under the "AspNetCore" namespace.

New behavior

Both views and application types are included in a single AppName.Views.dll assembly. View types are augmented with the internal sealed modifiers by default and included under the AspNetCoreGeneratedDocument namespace.

Reason for change

This change improves build performance for applications that use Razor views by removing the two-step compilation process and also allows Razor views to participate in the hot reload experience for VS.

Recommended action

N/A

Category

ASP.NET

Affected APIs

Not detectable via API analysis

Issue metadata

• Issue type: breaking-change

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