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Extensions for Azure Functions to run AspNetCore applications.

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how to best handle Razor pages when running locally

Given the following context: a MyNamespace.FunctionHost project with an azure function and a MyNamespace.AspNetCoreWebsite with a aspnet core website with razor pages and referencing the website from the function project.

When building the azure function project, it copies over all the dlls and put them in a bin folder under the function output.

Note that the compiled razor views are there too, but not placed in the bin folder.

<RazorCompileOnBuild>True</RazorCompileOnBuild>
<RazorCompileOnPublish>True</RazorCompileOnPublish>
<RazorEmbeddedResource>True</RazorEmbeddedResource>
<PreserveCompilationContext>true</PreserveCompilationContext>
<MvcRazorExcludeRefAssembliesFromPublish>false</MvcRazorExcludeRefAssembliesFromPublish>
<CopyRefAssembliesToPublishDirectory>true</CopyRefAssembliesToPublishDirectory>

When publishing the function project, the output also contains the wwwroot and appsettings files.

Everything actually runs with func host start in the published output folder.

But when running from visual studio with/without debug (F5), it results in razor issues:

I suspect that the issue here is related to that I in the implementation here for the aspnet core runner, is setting the contentPath(when running with environment=development) to the website project folder - meaning that it properly also detects the /Pages/* razor .cshtml files in the project folder. (Assumption correct?)

The reason that I made this development attribute to change content path, is because as outlined above - that when running in visual studio it do not do a full publish and the content files are not copied over and the only idea I had to fix that was to change the content path.

So how do we create a better development experience for this? Are there any magic way to make the build also copy over content files for the function project when F5? Or is the best way to set content path? If so, how do we then make sure that razor works?

I think when vs runs a aspnet core site, it also is setting content path to the project folder. Is this not what makes you able to change wwwroot files and they are reflected right away without rebuild?