Question

I am having one class called BaseClass which contains some logic applicable to whole web site.

In order to create a strongly typed view we need to inherit the page from System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage generic class. But In our case I have to Inherit the BaseClass from
System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage to apply some common settings, but the BaseClass should be inherited from System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<> generic version. But I cannot inherit the BaseClass from System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<> as it will change other class also. So I created one more class of type BaseClass<> inheriting it from System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<> and copied the whole code of BaseClass in BaseClass<>. But the code in BaseClass is controlled by other team so it will be changed frequently so my BaseClass<> should be in sync with BaseClass. Please help me in eliminating the code duplication or any other approach to make strongly typed View.

Thanks
Ashwani

Answer 1

Ok… it seems like you can’t change the use of this BaseClass for your views.

How about duplicating the logic of ViewPage<TModel>? Have a look at the ViewPage`1.cs file that is in the asp.net mvc source code and duplicate that. That would be the easiest way…

E.g.

public class BaseClass : ViewPage
{
    //Custom logic for africa here
}

public class BaseClass<TModel> : BaseClass
{
    //Copy and paste all the code from ViewPage`1.cs
    //It's not much - about 50 lines.
}

HTHs,
Charles

Ps. The link to the source code is for asp.net mvc 2