ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals

Activity: Creating Another Layout and Changing the View to That Layout

Scenario

You've created a layout for your website. You're required now to create another layout and change the view to that layout by your company.

Aim

To create another layout and then dynamically change the view to that layout when we hit our action method.

Steps for completion

1. First, we write the following code to our action method:

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public IActionResult Index(){  var view = View();  view.ViewData["Layout"] =  "~/Views/Shared/_Another.cshtml";  return view;}

2. Then, we modify our _ViewStart.cshtml file, as follows:

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@{  Layout = (string)ViewData["Layout"] ?? "_Layout";}

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