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Shashi
Shashi

Reputation: 101

What is _Viewstart in ASP.Net MVC

Actually we can use layout in our cshtml page. Then what is the need of using _Layout path in _Viewstart page.

Can I write the code of _Layout in _Viewstart page.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 13251

Answers (1)

Rehan Shah
Rehan Shah

Reputation: 1627

_Viewstart Page Introduced in ASP.NET MVC 3

The _ViewStart.cshtml page is a special view page containing the statement declaration to include the Layout page.

Instead of declaring the Layout page in every view page, we can use the _ViewStart page.

When a View Page Start is running, the “_ViewStart.cshtml” page will assign the Layout page for it.

and also provide more maintainability to our application.

Note: if we want to set views in a specific folder to use a different layout file then you can include another _viewStart.cshtml file in that specific folder.

Upvotes: 15

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