Remove the *.cs, *.Designer.cs codebehind files?

Question

Yeah, its a bit on this side of pointless, but I was wondering... I've got all these codebehind files cluttering my MVC app. The only reason why I need these files, as far as I can tell, is to tell ASP.NET that my page extends from ViewPage rather than Page.

I've tried a couple different Page directives changes, but nothing I've found will allow me to identify the base class for the page AND let me delete the codebehind files.

Is there a way to do it?

UPDATE: I'm trying to inherit from a strongly-typed ViewPage! Seems like its possible to inherit from a regular ViewPage...

Answer 1

Delete the codebehind and use a page directive like this:

<%@ Page Title="Title" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Layouts/Site.Master" %>

Or, if you want to get rid of the codebehind but still want to use strongly typed view, then read this link: http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/2008/08/13/strongly-typed-viewdata-without-a-codebehind.aspx

Here is a cut and paste of what this would look like:

<%@ Page Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage`1[[ABCCompany.MVC.Web.Models.LoginData, ABCCompany.MVC.Web]]" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" %>