how to add a code-behind page to a view or partial view

Question

I notice with the latest version of ASP.NET MVC that a View no longer defaults to having code-behind classes.

How do I go about adding a code-behind class now to a View or Partial View??

Answer 1

How to add a Code-behind page to a Partial View

Seems this wasn't particularly tricky, and is quite do-able. This answer worked for a Partial ViewUserControl but the same should apply for a Normal MVC ViewPage as well

1. Add a new Class file with the convention of <view filename & extention>.cs (i.e. view.ascx.cs)

2. Add using System.Web.Mvc; to the class

3. Change the class to Inherit from ViewUserControl<>.
   i.e. public class Foo:ViewUserControl

4. Add the following to the View's header:

   CodeBehind="View.ascx.cs" Inherits="Project.Views.Shared.View"

5. Copy the files out of the solution and drag back in to re-associate the two together. This may not be necessary in VS 2010+ and MVC 2+.

For this to work with a normal MVC View, you just need to inherit the class from "ViewPage"