Using a layout file with embedded resources

Hi. Thanks for this great project. It makes send nicely formatted emails so much easier.

Using the file system engine, I can include something like this in one of my templates

@{
    Layout = "_Layout";
}

I don’t want to relay the file system in prod so I’m looking at changing the engine to use embedded resources, however this results in an exception of Project can not find template with key _Layout.cshtml. Both files are embedded. Am I missing something here? I didn’t see much in the way of docs for layout files.

[maxbanas]

For your embedded resource project, the key for _Layout.cshtml would be “EmailTemplates._Layout.cshtml”. So in NotificationDigest.cshtml, you would set the layout like this:

@{
    Layout = "EmailTemplates._Layout.cshtml";
}

If all your templates are within EmailTemplates/, and you don’t want to have to include “EmailTemplates” in the key, you can set the root namespace by doing something like this: .UseEmbeddedResourcesProject(typeof(Test).Assembly, "RazorLitePoc.Services.EmailTemplates")

Also see #378

[photomoose]

In case other people come here wondering why this isn’t working, note that there’s a DOT between the folder name (“EmailTemplates”) and the layout name (“_Layout.cshtml”), and not a SLASH.