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Declare View

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Invokes the Visual Studio built-in refactoring that generates an MVC view for the current MVC action.

#Availability

From the context menus or via shortcuts:

  • when the edit cursor or caret is on an MVC action declaration, provided that the appropriate view does not exist.

#Example

public ActionResult TestAction()
{
    return View();
}
Public Function TestAction() As ActionResult
    Return View()
End Function

Result:

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<dynamic>" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">
    TestAction
</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">

    <h2>TestAction</h2>

</asp:Content>