Change Layout(Master Page) of view in ASP.NET MVC without recreate it

Question

I\'m using ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor views. When you want to create a view you can choose a layout (master page) for your view, or leave it to choose Default (_Layout).

I

Answer 1

After creating your view in the top of cshtml file you can see your layout included.

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

You can simply replace that for example with different layout

@{
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout2.cshtml";
}

Also, you can store this in the base layout (_ViewStart.cshtml) and then all your views will use that layout.