title: MVC Razor GUI and Coder Working Together
body: <p>I would really like to use the MVC and Razor technology for my web application. The problem I am running into is that I am the coder and will be working with a HTML GUI designer.</p>
  
  <p>I only see 2 ways for the GUI person to work at this point.</p>
  
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  <li><p>Install Visual Studio and open the whole solution and work like I am working, except he would stick to the CSHTML files.</p></li>
  <li><p>Use his favorite HTML editor or notepad and edit the CSHTML files manually and then also have something like IIS Express installed with the app configured so that they can refresh the page they are working on.</p></li>
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  <p>Neither of these seems productive or intuitive. I would love to see the GUI person able to use a tool like Expression Web or other tools that allow you to see the design and html at the same time. Having tools available for shading and colors and positioning would be good.</p>
  
  <p>Now I understand why it is this way. It is because of the processing that Razor does to render the pages. This is most true by the fact that most of the cshtml pages themselves are not complete pages. They are meant to live inside of a _layout page.</p>
  
  <p>Isn't there something, though, that can at least show the basic rendering during editor?</p>
  
  <p>What are other people doing?</p>