ASP.NET MVC–Precompile Razor views on Release build

Last week I was investigating slow startup times of an ASP.NET MVC web application. We were able to trace the root cause to a really complex Razor page. This was the first page that was loaded and takes a long time to compile.

By default Razor compilation happens the first time a Razor page is requested by the browser. However you can change this and prebuild all the Razor pages by adding the MvcBuildViews tag to your .csproj file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project>
    <PropertyGroup>
        <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>

Unfortunately it had a large impact on the build times making debugging a pain for the developers. So in the end we decided to only precompile Razor on a release build. Therefore we had to add 2 MvcBuildViews tags with a condition:

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

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.

Kubernetes–Limit your environmental impact

Reducing the carbon footprint and CO2 emission of our (cloud) workloads, is a responsibility of all of us. If you are running a Kubernetes cluster, have a look at Kube-Green . kube-green is a simple Kubernetes operator that automatically shuts down (some of) your pods when you don't need them. A single pod produces about 11 Kg CO2eq per year( here the calculation). Reason enough to give it a try! Installing kube-green in your cluster The easiest way to install the operator in your cluster is through kubectl. We first need to install a cert-manager: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.14.5/cert-manager.yaml Remark: Wait a minute before you continue as it can take some time before the cert-manager is up & running inside your cluster. Now we can install the kube-green operator: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kube-green/kube-green/releases/latest/download/kube-green.yaml Now in the namespace where we want t

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities. DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with these tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. Many tools are available. Here is the current list: Converters JSON <> YAML Timestamp Number Base Cron Parser Encoders / Decoders HTML URL Base64 Text & Image GZip JWT Decoder Formatters JSON SQL XML Generators Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) UUID 1 and 4 Lorem Ipsum Checksum Text Escape / Unescape Inspector & Case Converter Regex Tester Text Comparer XML Validator Markdown Preview Graphic Color B

The art of simplicity

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