Introduction
Suppose you are developing an ASP.NET web application and you want to
maintain a consistent look and feel across all the pages within your
web application. You then have two options, the first one is to design
the head, body and footer sections on each page. In this approach, you
need to write more code on each page so ASP.NET 2.0 introduced "Master
Pages" that helps enable this when using
.aspx based pages or templates. It is your second option. Razor also supports this concept with a feature called "
layouts"
that allow you to define a common site template, and then inherit its
look and feel across all the views/pages on your web application.
