Creuna Basis Slim

Razor

A new path is added to the view engine so it is possible to place pages in ~/Views/Pages/{controllername}.cshtml, and blocks in ~/Views/Blocks/{controllername}.cshtml.

e.g. ~/Views/Pages/FrontPage.cshtml

Razor Helpers

Some Razor helpers are included in the template. They are located ~/Business/Views. That namespace is included by default in all views, so no need to add @using-statements.

Razor Section with default content

In Razor, a section cannot have default content if not defined, unlike placeholders in Web Forms.

A method is included to make this possible. The approach is borrowed from Phil Haack.

To create a new optional section with default content this snippet can be used in your views:

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@RenderSection("SomeSection", () => Html.Action("DefaultContent", "Layout"))

The return value of the anonymous method can be any MvcHtmlString.

Strongly types Content Area Options

Episerver has a couple of magic parameters to pass to a content area to determine the rendering. As they are passed as an anonymous object, intellisense cannot help. This extension provides a class to provide strongly typed access to these properties.

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@Html.ContentArea(i => i.MyContentArea, new ContentAreaOptions
{
    ChildrenCssClass = "some-class",
    ChildrenCustomTag = "some-html-tag",
    CssClass = "some-class",
    CustomTag = "some-html-tag",
    RenderingTag = "some-rendering-tag"
})

Url Helpers

A couple of helpers to manage urls are included.

  • Converting a ContentReference, relative url or EPiServer.Url to absolute url
  • Helper to create link to a resized image from url or ImageData
  • Method to replace single query parameter in url
  • Get language segment from current url