Working with Layouts
When we created the List.cshtml view, we checked the option to use a layout. You can see the option from the Add View dialog in Figure 25-10. Layouts are the Razor equivalent to the master pages you saw in Chapter 9. They serve the same purpose as master pages but work in a slightly different way.
Figure 25-10. Setting the layout options when creating a view
We checked the option to use a layout, but we didn't specify one. If we look underneath the text box in the figure, we will see that it says “(Leave empty if it is set in a Razor _viewstart file),” and if we open the ~/Views/_ViewStart.cshtml file, we can see what ...
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