What is Razor Template Engine

It is a engine that generates PDF and image files based on HTML template files.

How it works?

How to use?

Before build the project, it is necessary create a file that will contain the secret token to protect PDF files. This file must be in the root of user the profile.

Open up Powershell

cd $env:userprofile
new-item .RodStu-razor-secret

Set the password in the secret file

notepad.exe .\.RodStu-razor-secret

Open up the solution file Template Engine.sln in Visual Studio.

Change startup project to cmd and change the solution platform to x64, as the image below:

Build the project.

Generate files (pdf, html, jpg)

If in Visual Studio, just Run the cmd project with F5.

Or navigate to the bin folder:

cd ..\<project-folder>\cmd\bin\x64

To generate HTML, HTML with password, PDF and PDF with password, just do:

cmd.exe

How to create / build Razor views?

HOWTO: Building Razor Views