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Strongly Type Views In Mvc

Strongly Type View

How To Create A Strongly Type View

1. Right click on the View → Home folder and click on Add → view..

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2. A pop up window appears. From the window, select ‘Empty’ from ‘Template’ drop down

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3. Once you select the option, ‘Model’ drop down gets enabled (see the following figure)

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4. Select the model and click on ‘Add’.

@model strongly_type_views.Models.MyModel

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "View2";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}


<h2>View2</h2>

Advantages Of Strongly Type View

1. In visual studio, you get an advantage of intellisense.
2. Errors could be checked at compile time.