Question

I have three controllers with three actions:

• List
• View
• Info

The only difference between controllers are selected layout and url.

First i used RenderPartial – but it is still a lot of code duplication (mainly in actions).

So i want in some way to avoid this – for example create only one controller and configurate routes, so it choices right layout for different urls.

Answer 1

how come controller defines your layout? this is a bad practice. remember that in MVC the VIEW layer is for defining the layout.

Each view file can override default shared Layout file with

@{
   Layout = "path/to/your/layout.cshtml";  
}

and you can provide that value dynamically with ViewBag for example.