>>>Hi,
>>>I am looking at the training video (Pluralsight) on APS.NET MVC Basics (produced in 2009) the demo project. The Views folder has Home folder and Shared folder. The Home folder is clear, it has view files for each view the project needs.
>>>
>>>The Shared folder has page Site.Master which is the master page used by all views.
>>>
>>>In the current version of VS 2012, when I create a test ASP.NET MVC project, the Shared folder has file _Layout.cshtml.
>>>
>>>What is the purpose of _Layout.cshtml?
>>>
>>>And does it mean that VS 2012 does not automatically create file Site.Master (master page for the project) and I have to create it manually?
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>Interesting that the same guy, Scott Guthrie, refers to the ASP.NET MVC 3 master page as SiteLayout.cshtml ( http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/22/asp-net-mvc-3-layouts.aspx ) and in another artilce as _Layout.cshtml ( http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/12/30/asp-net-mvc-3-layouts-and-sections-with-razor.aspx ). No wonder I am confused <g>.
>
>As an aside, Scott Guthrie is the father of ASP.NET MVC. MVC is a very old design pattern, decades old, but Guthrie is the one who came up with the idea of applying it to ASP.NET. Supposedly it came to him on an airplane flight.

I sometimes wonder whether a MVVM pattern would have been better - but trying to compare the two in a web context makes my brain hurt :-{