Razor pages working on .Net Core 3.0?

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After some days of crunching and debugging, I found the culprit(s). Here they are in random order:

  • If any of the following lines are present in the .csproj file, the views may or may not work (no consistent behaviour)

    <RazorCompileOnBuild>false</RazorCompileOnBuild>
    <RazorCompileOnPublish>false</RazorCompileOnPublish>
    <MvcRazorCompileOnBuild>false</MvcRazorCompileOnBuild>
    <MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>false</MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>

  • If a view is set on the request with a name containing a ‘/’, the view will not work. I used this because I wanted to use views in specific folders.

Request.Items["View"] = "Pages/Advertisement/AdvertisementDetailsMessage";

This is a change from the 2.X version (probably Net Core itself) but may be worth putting in the Release Notes.