ASP.NET MVC embedded views and virtual path provider

EmbeddedResourcesController.cs

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace Portal.Common.EmbeddedResources
{
    public class EmbeddedResourcesController : Controller
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes()
        {
            RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
                "Content",
                "Content/{*virtualPath}",
                new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
                typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
            );

            RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
                "Scripts",
                "Scripts/{*virtualPath}",
                new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
                typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
            );

            RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
                "Templates",
                "Templates/{*virtualPath}",
                new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
                typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
            );
        }

        public ActionResult Index(string virtualPath)
        {
            var virtualFile = EmbeddedResourcesManager.GetEmbeddedResourceFile(virtualPath);

            if (virtualFile == null)
            {
                Response.StatusCode = 404;
                return null;
            }

            return File(virtualFile.Open(), EmbeddedResourceTypes.GetContentType(virtualPath));
        }
    }
}

EmbeddedResourcesManager.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Hosting;

namespace Portal.Common.EmbeddedResources
{
    public static class EmbeddedResourcesManager
    {
        public static IEnumerable<EmbeddedResourceItem> EmbeddedResources { get; private set; }

        static EmbeddedResourcesManager()
        {
            EmbeddedResources = GetEmbeddedResources();
        }

        public static void Init()
        {
            HostingEnvironment.RegisterVirtualPathProvider(new EmbeddedViewProvider());
        }

        public static bool IsEmbeddedResource(string virtualPath)
        {
            var relativePath = VirtualPathUtility.ToAppRelative(virtualPath);
            return ContainsEmbeddedResource(relativePath);
        }

        public static bool IsEmbeddedView(string virtualPath)
        {
            return IsEmbeddedResource(virtualPath) && virtualPath.Contains("/Views/", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase);
        }

        public static bool ContainsEmbeddedResource(string virtualPath)
        {
            var foundResource = FindEmbeddedResource(virtualPath);
            return (foundResource != null);
        }

        public static EmbeddedResourceItem FindEmbeddedResource(string virtualPath)
        {
            var name = GetNameFromPath(virtualPath);
            var fileName = Path.GetFileName(virtualPath);

            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(name)
                ? null
                : EmbeddedResources.FirstOrDefault(r => r.Name.EndsWith(name, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase));
        }

        public static Stream GetManifestResourceStream(string virtualPath)
        {
            var embeddedResource = FindEmbeddedResource(virtualPath);

            if (embeddedResource == null)
                return null;

            var assembly = GetAssemblies().FirstOrDefault(a => a.FullName.Equals(embeddedResource.AssemblyFullName, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase));

            return (assembly == null) ? null : assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(embeddedResource.Name);
        }

        public static EmbeddedResourceFile GetEmbeddedResourceFile(string virtualPath)
        {
            var manifestResourceStream = GetManifestResourceStream(virtualPath);
            return (manifestResourceStream == null) ? null : new EmbeddedResourceFile(virtualPath, manifestResourceStream);
        }

        public static string GetManifestResourceString(string virtualPath)
        {
            var resourceFile = GetEmbeddedResourceFile(virtualPath);
            return (resourceFile == null) ? string.Empty : new StreamReader(resourceFile.Open()).ReadToEnd();
        }

        public static string GetNameFromPath(string virtualPath)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(virtualPath))
                return null;

            return virtualPath.Replace("~", string.Empty).Replace("/", ".");
        }

        private static IEnumerable<EmbeddedResourceItem> GetEmbeddedResources()
        {
            var assemblies = GetAssemblies();

            if (assemblies == null || assemblies.Count() == 0)
                return null;

            var embeddedResources = new List<EmbeddedResourceItem>();

            foreach (var assembly in assemblies)
            {
                var names = GetNamesOfAssemblyResources(assembly);

                if (names == null || names.Length == 0)
                    continue;

                var validNames = from name in names
                                 let ext = Path.GetExtension(name)
                                 where EmbeddedResourceTypes.Contains(ext) || name.ToLowerInvariant().Contains(".views.")
                                 select name;

                foreach (var name in validNames)
                {
                    embeddedResources.Add(new EmbeddedResourceItem { Name = name, AssemblyFullName = assembly.FullName });
                }
            }

            return embeddedResources;
        }

        private static IEnumerable<Assembly> GetAssemblies()
        {
            try
            {
                return AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies();
            }
            catch
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

        private static string[] GetNamesOfAssemblyResources(Assembly assembly)
        {
            // GetManifestResourceNames will throw a NotSupportedException when run on a dynamic assembly
            try
            {
                return assembly.GetManifestResourceNames();
            }
            catch
            {
                return new string[] { };
            }
        }
    }

    public class EmbeddedResourceItem
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string AssemblyFullName { get; set; }
    }

    public class EmbeddedResourceFile : VirtualFile
    {
        private readonly Stream _manifestResourceStream;

        public EmbeddedResourceFile(string virtualPath, Stream manifestResourceStream) :
            base(virtualPath)
        {
            _manifestResourceStream = manifestResourceStream;
        }

        public override Stream Open()
        {
            return _manifestResourceStream;
        }
    }
}

EmbeddedResourceTypes.cs

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;

namespace Portal.Common.EmbeddedResources
{
    public static class EmbeddedResourceTypes
    {
        public static string GetContentType(string path)
        {
            return MimeTypes[Path.GetExtension(path)];
        }

        public static bool Contains(string extension)
        {
            return MimeTypes.ContainsKey(extension.ToLowerInvariant());
        }

        public static readonly Dictionary<string, string> MimeTypes = new Dictionary<string, string>
        {
            {".js", "text/javascript"},
            {".css", "text/css"},
            {".gif", "image/gif"},
            {".png", "image/png"},
            {".jpg", "image/jpeg"},
            {".xml", "application/xml"},
            {".txt", "text/plain"},
            {".html", "text/html"}
        };
    }
}

EmbeddedViewProvider.cs

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Caching;
using System.Web.Hosting;

namespace Portal.Common.EmbeddedResources
{
    public class EmbeddedViewProvider : VirtualPathProvider
    {
        public override bool FileExists(string virtualPath)
        {
            return base.FileExists(virtualPath) || EmbeddedResourcesManager.IsEmbeddedView(virtualPath);
        }

        public override VirtualFile GetFile(string virtualPath)
        {
            if (base.FileExists(virtualPath))
                return base.GetFile(virtualPath);

            try
            {
                return EmbeddedResourcesManager.GetEmbeddedResourceFile(virtualPath);
            }
            catch
            {
                throw new HttpException((int)HttpStatusCode.NotFound, "Embedded resource not found.");
            }
        }

        public override CacheDependency GetCacheDependency(string virtualPath,
            IEnumerable virtualPathDependencies, DateTime utcStart)
        {
            return EmbeddedResourcesManager.IsEmbeddedResource(virtualPath)
                ? null
                : base.GetCacheDependency(virtualPath, virtualPathDependencies, utcStart);
        }
    }
}

Can you let me know how to use it? I tried your code snippet but it doesn't work.
I have scripts, cshtml and other embedded files in an assembly named MyAssembly.

So I tried following urls to see if it works:
/Content/MyAssembly.Folder.Web.Views.Home.Index.cshtml
/Scripts/MyAssembly.Folder.Web.Scripts/Jquery.js

I got this to work by adding the following to my AreaRegistration file where i map by routes and removing it from the class shown above.

---

RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
            "Content",
            "Content/{*virtualPath}",
            new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
            typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
        );

        RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
            "Scripts",
            "Scripts/{*virtualPath}",
            new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
            typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
        );

        RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
            "Templates",
            "Templates/{*virtualPath}",
            new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
            typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
        );

---

however I had to make slight changes,

InsertRoute changed to MapRoute and the line with typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace

had to be changed to: new[] {typeof (EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace}

 RouteTable.Routes.InsertRoute(
            "Content",
            "Content/{*virtualPath}",
            new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
            typeof(EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace
        );

Mine looks like

context.MapRoute(
           "Content",
           "Content/{*virtualPath}",
           new { controller = "EmbeddedResources", action = "Index" },
           new[] {typeof (EmbeddedResourcesController).Namespace}
          );

Then I can access any files through the url:
http:/mysite.com/EmbeddedResources/index/?virtualPath=my.css

If you want to access other folders resources, just copy and change "Content/{_virtualPath}" to your other folder like "Scripts/{_virtualPath}".

Then use
http:/mysite.com/EmbeddedResources/index/?virtualPath=myscript.js

It's possible to get aspx and masterpage files from a embeddet resource with this code?