Code Analysis to validate views in ASP.NET

[mikadumont]

Direct customer ask copying here:

ReShaper for example offers additions errors and hints / code analytics. One of those validates the views in ASP.NET.
If you try to return a view that does not exist (see sample), ReSharper adds red squiggles, and you get an additional error. With vanilla VS20xx there is not hint at all.

You just don't get a hint that e.g. a cshtml file, doesn't exist. This should be a compile error, but it is now just a runtime error.

With ReSharper the line is marked as error and its red:

[ShreyasJejurkar]

When I started working on ASP.NET MVC back in 2015 in college, I always wondered about this ReSharper feature about detecting views and how intelligently it does!

I hope this will be an official, built-in feature with SDK going forward! 🤞