I am porting a classic ASP.NET application (ASPX pages) to ASP.NET MVC 3. Currently

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I am porting a classic ASP.NET application (ASPX pages) to ASP.NET MVC 3. Currently

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I am porting a classic ASP.NET application (ASPX pages) to ASP.NET MVC 3. Currently I use ContentPlaceHolder(s) to dynamically add content to specific ASP.NET ASPX pages. Consider the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <link href="MyStyleSheet.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Styles">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jQueryAndOtherScripts.js"></script>
        <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Scripts">
        </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="Container">
            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Content">
            </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

So in the snippet above I have 3 content place holders so I can add addition styles, scripts and content based on the individual page. The reason I have done it this way is so that each page only loads the styles, scripts relevant to the content on the page (for example if it was the login page, I might add a script to check that the login details are valid)

Consider the following MVC 3 Razor View snippet:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <link href="MyStyleSheet.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jQueryAndOtherScripts.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="Container">
            @RenderBody()
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Now for the problem…RenderBody() replaces <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Content"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder>, but what do I use as a replacement for <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Styles"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder> and <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="Scripts"></asp:ContentPlaceHolder> ?