Force all Areas to use same Layout

Question

I have the following project structure:

• /Views/Shared/_Layout;

• /Areas/Area1/Views/ControllerName/Index;

...

• /Ar

Answer 1

You specify a layout using:

@{ Layout = "_Layout"; }

If you want to make this easier to change all at once. Perhaps you could just set it as a view bag variable and pass it in on the controller. To make it even easier you could create a base controller that the other controllers inherit from and have it assign the layout to the view bag there.

Not sure why routing would need to change or perhaps I am not understanding. Hope this helps :)