Using @helper methods defined in external templates about razorengine HOT 3 OPEN

This could be possible, I will be looking at this, and the ability to persist the template assemblies to the file system. The only thing we need to handle is ensuring that templates that are cleared from the cache are also cleared from the the file system and don't cause naming conflicts. May have to do something special with namespaces.

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hi - is this possible? thanks

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To make helpers work across templates we need to reference dynamic assemblies. This would work in theory, but one would need to invest some thinking into it (naming of assemblies and classes)...

The main problems:

• How to ensure the helpers are compiled before the other templates
• What about multiple Helper templates (conflicting class names anyone?)
• How should we call the classes and make sure they are 'unique' (which is the current strategy with guids).

If anyone wants to do that just go ahead. I will mark this as up-for-grabs.

Edit: To clarify with "dynamic assemblies" I don't mean dynamic assemblies as generated by Reflection.Emit but REAL assemblies dynamically created and loaded.

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