How do I specify different Layouts in the ASP NET MVC 3 razor ViewStart file

Question

I would like to have 2 separate Layouts in my application  Let s say one is for the Public section of the website and the other is for the Member side  For simplicity  let s say all the logic for each of these sites is wrapped neatly into 2 distinct controllers   PublicController StaffController  And that they each have a corresponding Layout for all the View under each    PublicLayout cshtml  StaffLayout cshtml  How do I use the  ViewStart cshtml file to specify that all Views   Actions under  quot Public quot  use the PublicLayout and everything under  quot Staff quot  uses the StaffLayout

User · Answer

This method is the simplest way for beginners to control Layouts rendering in your ASP.NET MVC application. We can identify the controller and render the Layouts as par controller, to do this we can write our code in _ViewStart file in the root directory of the Views folder. Following is an example shows how it can be done.

@{
    var controller = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["Controller"].ToString();
    string cLayout = "";

    if (controller == "Webmaster")
        cLayout = "~/Views/Shared/_WebmasterLayout.cshtml";
    else
        cLayout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";

    Layout = cLayout;
}

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User · Answer

One more method is to Define the Layout inside the View             Layout      Views Shared  MyAdminLayout cshtml           More Ways to do  can be found here  hope this helps someone

User · Answer

You could put a  ViewStart cshtml file inside the  Views Public folder which would override the default one in the  Views folder and specify the desired layout          Layout      Views Shared  PublicLayout cshtml       By analogy you could put another  ViewStart cshtml file inside the  Views Staff folder with          Layout      Views Shared  StaffLayout cshtml       You could also specify which layout should be used when returning a view inside a controller action but that s per action   return View  Index      Views Shared  StaffLayout cshtml   someViewModel     Yet another possibility is a custom action filter which would override the layout  As you can see many possibilities to achieve this  Up to you to choose which one fits best in your scenario     UPDATE   As requested in the comments section here s an example of an action filter which would choose a master page   public class LayoutInjecterAttribute   ActionFilterAttribute       private readonly string  masterName      public LayoutInjecterAttribute string masterName                 masterName   masterName             public override void OnActionExecuted ActionExecutedContext filterContext                base OnActionExecuted filterContext           var result   filterContext Result as ViewResult          if  result    null                        result MasterName    masterName                      and then decorate a controller or an action with this custom attribute specifying the layout you want    LayoutInjecter   PublicLayout    public ActionResult Index         return View

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