ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals

Creating a View Component

You can create a view component using any of the following methods:

• Create a class by deriving one from the ViewComponent attribute
• Enhance a class with the [ViewComponent] attribute or derive it from the class that has the [ViewComponent] attribute
• Use the convention by creating a class that ends with a suffix ViewComponent attribute

Whichever option you choose, the view component should be a public, non-nested, and non-abstract class.

As with controllers, you can use dependency injection (via a constructor) in the ViewComponent attribute too. As the ViewComponent attribute is separate from the controller life cycle, you may not be able to use the action filters in ViewComponents.

There is a method called Invoke ...