Ambiguous behaviour when using within an asp.net core web project

[corstian]

When using this mail approach from within an asp.net core project, the mail templates will use the shared (layout) components defined within the web project. As such, unexpected behaviour will result.

This should at least be documented.

Possible approaches in order to resolve:

• Try to separate the loaded views, and only load certain view assemblies (or app parts) for the mail dispatcher.
• Specifically define which layout file should be used

[synercoder]

I would say document it for clarity.

[corstian]

The easiest approach for now to get around that is to just rename the shared layout file, for example from _Layout.cshtml to _MailLayout.cshtml, in order to make sure the correct layout will be found, even when using this library in combination with an asp.net core web site.