telerik/razor-converter

Tool for converting WebForms Views to Razor (C# Only)

The razor-converter is a simple tool for converting Microsoft® ASP.NET MVC WebForms Views to the new Razor syntax. It was initially developed by the Telerik ASP.NET MVC team for internal use, but it now lives its own life on GitHub.

Known limitations:

• The tool only works with views and does not deal with the project structure and master pages.
• Expressions in script tags are not converted
• Due to the differences between the view engines the automatic conversion will sometimes fail or produce incorrect results. See the integration tests for specific scenarios that are not covered.

For general tips on converting WebForms Views to Razor Views, see these blog posts:

• Introducing Razor
• Model directive support
• Layouts
• Server-side comments
• The syntax
• Implicit and explicit code nuggets
• Introducing Razor (by Andrew Nurse)

Help specific to the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

Command line usage:

aspx2razor <input-directory> [output-directory] [options]

Options: -r: Convert directories and their contents recursively (Contributed by Jeffrey T. Fritz)

A file with cshtml extension will be created for each input file. Existing files will be OVERWRITTEN, so you must be very careful.

razor-converter's Issues

Whitespace preservation

Another small issue.

<span class="annotation">(<%: tag.Count %>)</span>

...became something like...

<span class="annotation">(@tag.Count )</span>

Note the space before the closing parenthesis? This changes the way the view looks.

Variables in script tags

First off, thanks for the great tool!

Found a bug though:
Assume this code:

  <script>
       var x = '<%= Url.Action("index") %>';
  </script>

The converter doesn't convert it...

Issues with running

Hi,

Can some explain me the exact steps to run this code. I have to convert the default menu structure to Razor view.

Thanks in advance.

StartUp project should be?

Moves File Into Incorrect Directory

I have a file - Views/Foo/Edit.aspx and a another file Views/Foo/EditorTemplates/Bar.ascx

When I run aspx2razor against this folder, the Edit.aspx remains, and a new file Edit.cshtml is placed into the Views/Foo/EditorTemplates/ directory.

May I be doing something incorrectly? I've attempted this with the -r switch and without the -r switch. Thanks

Visual Studio 2017 compatibility

Hello,
Have u tried compiling it for VS2017 or have you just made a publish for this IDE?
I need to convert a quite huge project from webform to razor

Thanks

Please post a help note on how the code works..

Please post a help note on how the code works.. I have the razor-converter Visual Studio file with me. Please advice how it converts the aspx/ascx file to cshtml..

It does not convert .master pages correctly

None of the HTML part is converted, all I have is

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage

@using System.Linq
@using MyNamespace1
@using MyNamespace2

Ternary operators

Hi,

I found that the converter systhematically missed ternary operator in ASPX.

Here is a source fragment

<th align="center" style="width: 12%" class="<%=tableWrapper.Column == "value" ? "selected" : "" %>">

Here is how it gets converted

<th align="center" style="width: 12%" class="@tableWrapper.Column == "value" ? "selected" : """>

Here is how it's supposed to work

<th align="center" style="width: 12%" class="@(tableWrapper.Column == "value" ? "selected" : "")">

Notice the parentheses wrapping the @ expression containing the ternary.

I fixed them all manually. I hope in a future release this will be handled correctly by the tool. Nice work, anyway!

Please add this to readme:

If you get this error "Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Can only add child notes implementing IWebFormsContentNode" - remove asp.net user controls and "register tagprefix" directive from the aspx page before converting.

Server comments

Thanks for this great tool. One issue I found was that my server comments were completely removed during the conversion.

<%-- server comment --%>

...should be converted to...

@* server comment *@