Reusable text in MVC4

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I'm just learning MVC4, so this is a very basic question.

I have a string of text that I'd like to display on multiple pages. What is the best practice to accomplish this (other than copying/pasting it into each cshtml)?

If it's not view specific, and it's universal you could add it to the _layout — Maess, Nov 08 '12 at 16:21
You could also consider storing your strings as resources and retrieving where necessary through the a `ResourceManager`, this has the added benefit of being able to do localization down the road if you ever need to. — Quintin Robinson, Nov 08 '12 at 16:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '12 at 16:28

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If it's going to be on every page, put it in the _layout file as Maess suggested. If you only want it in specific views, you can create a partial view and just insert that wherever you want it to display.

answered Nov 08 '12 at 16:28

Shawn Steward

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Thank you. I ended up going through the partial view route. It seems to work fine for my purposes. – Rethic Nov 08 '12 at 19:29

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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You could define them in code within a static class:

namespace MyNamespace
{
    public static class MyConstants
    {
        public static string message = "Whatever I wanted to say";
    }
}

and use them in cshtml:

@using MyNamespace
<h1>@ViewBag.Title @constants.message    </h1>

Also have a look at the answers to VikViks question: Share constants between C# and Javascript in MVC Razor

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Nov 08 '12 at 16:34

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Cool... I'll have to try this out when I get a chance to breathe. I had read a number of articles saying "ViewBag is evil", so was worried about being lambasted if I used it. – Rethic Nov 08 '12 at 19:32

Reusable text in MVC4

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