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Support for latest CSharp Features
You can now provide the CSharpCodeProvider that is used to compile Razor templates. This requires adding the Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform and adding a <codeDom> section to the host project. We don't provide this in-box due to the large size of the compiler, so you get the lightweight CSharp 5.0 implementation out of box, and you can add Roslyn based compilation (~17meg package!) explicitly to your own application.

January 7th, 2018

Host Container ThrowExceptions Option You can now have the Razor Host Containers throw exceptions when an error occurs rather than returning error information on the error message property. A custom exception is thrown that provides more information about the current request and engine.
StringHostContainer to match constructor format
Add overload to generic type overload of the StringHostContainer in the same way you can overload FolderHostContainer. Makes it easier to create application level hosts derived from a specific template.
RawString Default and Empty Property
Added RawString.Empty property which returns a new empty RawString instance. Default instance now also returns string.Empty (rather than null before).

May 29th, 2017

Support for Layout Pages with RazorFolderHostContainer
You can now use the Layout property in your templates when using the RazorFolderHostContainer class to render Razor Views using @{ Layout = " ~\_Layout.cshtml" } relative to the folder root.
Add inferModelType option for string RenderTemplate() methods
Added option to allow inferring the model type if no @model or @inherits tags are provided in the template. If set this flag adds the model type to the template to force a strongly typed model. Note that this feature only works for string template rendering in RazorEngine.RenderTemplate() and StringHostContainer.RenderTemplate(). Stream and file based renderers do not have this feature and must explicitly specify the model type.
Updated Documentation Site
Updated the documentation site to use the latest Help Builder templates from old very outdated old MSDN style templates. Yikes! ?? Updated content for version 3.0 improvements and added latest generated class documentation.

July 8th, 2014

Update to Razor Version 3
Updated to the latest version of the Razor Engine distributed with MVC 5. Fix various issues that are a result of the new rendering engine.
Require .NET 4.5 to run
The Razor Libraries version 3 requires .NET 4.5 so this library is updating to the same .NET version.
Support for @helper
You can now use Razor Helpers using the @helper syntax supported in core Razor. Helpers allow you to create small function like Razor snippets that can either act as functions or execute razor templates to provide reusability.
Version numbers in Sync with Razor Version
Decided to keep the library version in sync with Razor version.
RazorHostContainerBase now implements IDisposable
Container hosts are now IDisposable which makes it easier to stop them when they are released. Default Dispose() behavior stops the engine and releases all cached assemblies.

December 20th, 2012

Changed default bin folder location
Default folder location is now loaded from GetEntryAssembly() location by default and falls back to current directory if that can't resolve. BaseBinary folder can still be used to explicitly override the path.
Removed System.Web dependency
Removed dependency on System.Web for client applications. One drawback: No access to HtmlString(), for raw result values, so templates use a custom RawString format.
RazorEngine.LastResultData property
to hold response data retrieved from last request
Added non-generic RazorEngine class
To simplify basic pages that don't require strongly typed ViewModels the non-generic RazorEngine class can now be used. When used only dynamic models are available.
Nested template Rendering
Added support to allow nested template rendering within expressions. Allows to have RazorExpressions to be evaluated in the result of a parsed expression. Useful for dynamic content systems that can contain Razor content as part of the application stored data (like a CMS or help system)