Overriding/Changing Base Razor View Page Type in ASP.NET 5 (vnext)

   Introduction:

                 Using razor views, sometimes we might need additional class properties/methods in all our views than we have in the existing built-in base razor view. For example, our all view pages might need title, keywords, etc. In ASP.NET 5, we can easily create a base razor view page class and set this class as a base razor view type for all our views. In this post, I will show you an example of this.   

        Description:

                    Note that I am using beta7 at the time of writing. Razor views are inherit from generic Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Razor.RazorPage class. We can create our custom base razor view class by inheriting RazorPage class,

1	public abstract class MyRazorPage<T> : RazorPage<T>

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{

3	public string Title { get; set; }

4	public string Description { get; set; }

5	public string[] Keywords { get; set; }

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}

                    We have added three more properties in our base view. Now for making this class as our base razor view globally, we can register it in _ViewImports.cshtml file,

1	@inherits MyNameSpace.MyRazorPage<TModel>

                    Now we can use the new properties (Title, Description and Keywords) anywhere in our view.

        Summary:

                    In this article, I showed you an example of how to create a base razor view page and then how to register this class globally.