Big Rock: View Compilation Tool for Pages

[DamianEdwards]

We'll need to embed some more meta-data in order to make the pages work

[DamianEdwards]

@Eilon @rynowak @pranavkm this needs triaging/assigning.

[rynowak]

@pranavkm - I'm envisioning an IR pass as part of MVC's extensibility that will extract the relevant information and put it in the 'manifest'.

Then this can be uniform for views and pages. Each one produces a generated class in one .cs file, and a manifest (assembly level attributes) in another .cs file.

This has the benefit that everything is now uniform, pages/views and compilation/precompilation.

When you load a 'precompiled' assembly, the set of views/pages are determined by the manifest.
When you load a 'compiled' assembly the set of views/pages are also determined by the manifest.

[rynowak]

@pranavkm - please look at this after finishing up the URL generation stuff.

[DamianEdwards]

@pranavkm is this done now via 8ed5510?