ASP.NET Core 2 - ReSharper "Create Razor View" adds new view to Pages folder

Question

I've started trying out new ASP.NET Core 2 for building an MVC Web App, and it looks good so far...

Except that when I create Views from my controller actions, ReSharper creates them in a Pages folder, rather than the Views folder (where I generally like to keep my Views ;-) )

ReSharper doesn't behave this way for regular ASP.NET Web Apps (not core), it puts the views in the correct view folder, so this looks to be to do with Core / Core 2.

What is resharper using to decide where to create the view?

How can I change this behavior so that it creates the views in the traditional location?

Answer 1

I think this is a bug in Resharper and I'm suspecting it might be related to the new Razor Pages Apps .net core 2 team just released.

So, perhaps it would be better for you to fill an issue on Reshaper's Bug Tracking System.

However, I've managed to setup a workaround. I'm sharing the steps here, just in case you need to fix this ASAP and when JetBrains fixes the issue - if it finally is an issue :) - you can remove this patch.

1. Install the nuget package for Jetbrains Annotations.

   Install-Package JetBrains.Annotations
   

2. Create a .cs file on the root of your asp.net core project - I've named it ResharperConfig.cs - with the following content:

   using JetBrains.Annotations;
   
   [assembly: AspMvcMasterLocationFormat("~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml")]
   [assembly: AspMvcViewLocationFormat("~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml")]
   [assembly: AspMvcPartialViewLocationFormat("~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml")]
   [assembly: AspMvcAreaMasterLocationFormat("~/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml")]
   [assembly: AspMvcAreaViewLocationFormat("~/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml")]
   [assembly: AspMvcAreaPartialViewLocationFormat("~/Areas/{2}/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml")]
   

3. Build your project and restart VS. (this was important for me).

4. When you reopen the solution, R# will recognize the locations for the views. Now you can go and create views from the actions the way you're used to.

Hope this helps!