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Thursday 21 July 2011

RazorEngine TemplateCompilationException Unable to compile template

When using the RazorEngine for the first time for email templating I ran into a "TemplateCompilationException" with the error message "Unable to compile template. Check Errors list for details." Looking further into the error I found further details "error CS0103: The name 'model' does not exist in the current context."

It turns out that your Razor views are not to be writen in exactly the same way as when running within an ASP.NET web context. I suppose I should have guessed this from the way I was used to declaring the model for the WebFormsViewEngine.

Solution

Instead of using the @model declaration at the the top I should have been using @inherits. An example:

Regular Razor view for web:
@model Models.ContactDetailsViewModel
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <body>
  <div>
   <p>Hello @Model.FullName,</p>
   <p>We will call you at @Model.CallTime on @Model.PhoneNumber</p>
   <p>Thanks</p>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

Razor view for use as a template:
@inherits RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateBase<Models.ContactDetailsViewModel>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <body>
  <div>
   <p>Hello @Model.FullName,</p>
   <p>We will call you at @Model.CallTime on @Model.PhoneNumber</p>
   <p>Thanks</p>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

Hope this helps and well done for using such an awesome feature of the RazorEngine!

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Posted by Colin Farr at Thursday, July 21, 2011 Labels:

45 comments:

  1. Mike24 July 2011 at 20:36

    Hi

    Thanks for the info, this solved the compile problem, however I no longer get intellisense in VS2010. In the cshtml file the intellisense tells me that a reference is missing to the RazorEngine assembly.

    Did you get this problem?

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  2. Colin Farr25 July 2011 at 09:17

    I added the RazorEngine using NuGet so it got all the references for me and it all works well so I can't say I recognise your issue. I'm using VS2010 SP1 if that helps.

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  3. Matthew Abbott31 August 2011 at 13:59

    The @model keyword is specific to ASP.NET MVC3's RazorViewEngine. The base parser itself doesn't support it, but it does support adding custom keywords. Visual Studio using @model out of the box to support its Intellisense feature (it can use either @inherits or the terse @model).

    You can manually add support for this in RazorEngine v2 but you'd need to recompile it. I'm hoping to introduce a generic keyword extension mechanism in v3 which should easily enable these scenarios.

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  4. Colin Farr1 September 2011 at 16:39

    Thanks for the info Matthew. But much more importantly thanks for making the Razor Engine!

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  5. Matthew Abbott12 October 2011 at 20:45

    FYI, @model has been implemented in v3, which I am hoping to push onto GitHub soon :-)

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  7. Sean Brown1 October 2014 at 22:14

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  9. Sean Brown1 October 2014 at 22:27

    I get a TemplateCompilationException but it is on my model type, not on the model keyword. I get the same exception when I change it to "@inherits RazorEngine.Templating.TemplateBase<MyType>". Any pointers there?

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  10. Sean Brown1 October 2014 at 22:31

    I resolved the issue I was having. I was not fully-qualifying MyType. After fully qualifying it, e.g. "@model ModelNamespace.MyType", it now works. This blog was helpful: http://mehdi.me/generating-html-emails-with-razorengine-basics-generating-your-first-email/

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