migrating webforms to Razor

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With ASP.NET MVC 3, I am trying to migrate a webform page to a Razor page.

I could not find a way to migrate this kind of code I used this kind of code in webforms:

<script runat="server">
    protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
    {
          base.OnInit(e);
          my other code here...
     }
</script>

I could not find a way to translate this in Razor.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Because ASP.NET MVC does not have the same "page lifecycle" like Web Forms does (that's a good thing). Have a look at this StackOverflow question to see the comparison of the two.

You can use _ViewStart.cshtml for this purpose (will execute before any View renders)

_ViewStart.cshtml:

@{
    @* Your code here, e.g: *@
    ViewBag.Theme = "MyTheme"
}

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Mar 09 '11 at 05:28

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My understanding is _ViewStart.cshtml applies to all pages I have so many pages and each has its own initialization code – user385411 Mar 09 '11 at 05:38
@user385411 - what does the code do? Couldn't it go in the Controller? – RPM1984 Mar 09 '11 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '11 at 18:29

How about an Action Filter. Action filters are custom attributes that provide a declarative means to add pre-action and post-action behavior to specific controller action methods. It sounds like that might be what you're looking for.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3

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