Question: Razor Language Server Protocol (LSP) for MVC 5

[tompazourek]

Just read about the New experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio.

Will this new Razor editor support editing of the ASP.NET MVC 5 Razor, or is it strictly for the new ASP.NET Core Razor?

If it did, it might be a way to resolve Razor Intellisense issues with MVC 5 projects using the new SDK-style project system (see dotnet/project-system#2670 (comment)). I'm just curious.

Thanks for the information, I'm glad to learn more about this cool feature.

[NTaylorMullen]

Hi @tompazourek I'm glad you're as excited about this new effort as we are! The first iterations of the experimental Razor editor will not support the pre-existing ASP.NET MVC 5 Razor skew; however, it is something we may re-evaluate in the future 😄

[tompazourek]

@NTaylorMullen Thanks, good to know.

[CZEMacLeod]

@NTaylorMullen Just a quick note to say that this would be a major boost for those still having to handle legacy applications and frameworks. Using the RazorGenerator.MsBuild package in an SDK style project produces class libraries with UI that can be much more easily edited and managed etc. with just a bare-bones legacy ASPNET5 project in the old format but editing Razor files is the major hurdle for maintenance.
I understand that most effort will have to go into supporting new tech, but this would really help enable editing, maintaining and migrating legacy code.

[tompazourek]

@CZEMacLeod I agree, as noted in my comment dotnet/project-system#2670 (comment), Rider actually doesn't have the Intellisense issues as VS on older ASP.NET MVC 5 projects so maybe Rider is the way to go for legacy apps.