MVC3 beta Razor View Base class/inheritance issues

Why are Razor views not generated as partial classes? Making them partial classes gives us the option to have a code behind where we can do some of the stuff we're forced to do in the template itself in the code behind file.

Yes, I know the standard "go-to" thing is Html helper but I don't want to use Html helpers for these things as they are too specific to the view in question and besides, having a clutter of extension methods is just not the way to go.

I'd like to see Razor views generated as partial classes.

In my controller method, I'm trying to create an instance of a View (cshtml file) before I wrap it around an ActionResult and return it.

Since there is no "class" for Razor Views to speak off, how does one go about creating an instance of a Razor View?

Hello,

On my projects I am using Razor View engine and I need to define custom Partial folders:

      // Define default view engine
      ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
      ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new CshtmlViewEngine());
      ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new WebFormViewEngine());

      // Define Razor view engine
      CshtmlViewEngine razor = (CshtmlViewEngine)ViewEngines.Engines[0];

      // Register partial views folders                
      razor.PartialViewLocationFormats = razor.PartialViewLocationFormats.Concat(new String[] { "~/Views/Partial/{0}.cshtml" }).ToArray();
      razor.AreaPartialViewLocationFormats = razor.AreaPartialViewLocationFormats.Concat(new String[] { "~/Areas/{1}/Views/Partial/{0}.cshtml" }).ToArray();

I had this because there was a problem in MVC 3 Preview. Was it corrected?

How should I register the Partial Views in MVC 3 Beta?

Thank You,

Miguel

I have the following entity object:

    public class ForumPost
        {
            public virtual int ForumPostId { get; set; }
            public virtual int LoginId { get; set; }
            public virtual string Body { get; set; }
    ...

 
Then I have page that would has a list of ForumPost(s) and and edit option, all on one page. To achieve this I've created a CommentsViewModel that extends "ForumPost" class like so:

    public class CommentsViewModel : ForumPost
    {
        public IPagedList<ForumPost> ForumPostList { get; set; }
    }

This way on my view I can have a list of ForumPost(s) and a form that would edit the post.

This is what i see in the debug mode right before the save call:


The problem is that when I try to Save/Update I get the following error:





I already tried doing this:

this.ForumPostRepository.Insert((ForumPost)model);

OR

I've tried setting the <pages pageBaseType="DynamicWebPage" /> value in web.config, but when I response.write out the page type, I'm still getting Microsoft.WebPages.WebPage.

I'm simply trying to sub-class WebPage and add some additional functionality such as a dynamic PageData dictionary similar to Phil Haack's dynamic ViewData dictionary.

Thanks,

Adam

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