ASP.NET MVC: Shared layout

Question

I have created a new empty ASP.NET MVC 4 project, and added a new folder Shared in View and new file _Layout.cshtml and put this code to that

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>@ViewBag.Title</title>
    <script src="@Url.Content("~/Content/style.css")"></script>
</head>
<body>
    @RenderBody()
</body>
</html>

and now when I add new view for a controller it doesn't detect it as master page automatically as well as Basic Template

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "AboutUs";
}

<h2>AboutUs</h2>

it doesnt get _Layout.cshtml file as master page until I set that manually with Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";

Sergey Vyacheslavovich Brunov · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-08 22:31:57Z

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I think you need a _ViewStart.cshtml in your Views folder which should have the following in it:

@{
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

edited Mar 8, 2016 at 22:31

Sergey Vyacheslavovich Brunov

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answered Aug 7, 2013 at 18:24

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