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Ray
Ray

Reputation: 4947

MVC combined with WebAPI in ASP.NET Core, but where are the Views?

I'm trying to come to grips with the new ASP.NET Core 1.0 which states that both ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET MVC are combined into one framework. So I decided to create a new ASP.NET Core Web API application using the ASP.NET Web API template from Visual Studio 2015.

But when I looked at the generated files/folders, there is no Views folder. The ValuesController is generated. I even added my own Controller which returns Web API responses. But I should also be able to add actions in my controller that returns, say, partial views as well right?

Since these two were merged, I assume I should be able to see a Views folder but I don't. How do I add the MVC parts to an app that was created using the Web Api template?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1526

Answers (1)

Ahmar
Ahmar

Reputation: 3867

You can add a Views folder manually by following these steps:

  1. Create a Views folder.
  2. Create _ViewStart.cshtml in the Views folder with this content:
@{
  Layout = "_Layout";
}
  1. Create a Shared folder inside the Views folder.
  2. Create _Layout.cshtml inside the Shared folder with this content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>@ViewData["Title"] - Web App</title>

</head>
<body>

    @RenderBody()

</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 5

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