What is ViewStart?

 Razor View Engine introduced a new layout named _ViewStart which is applied on all view automatically. Razor View Engine firstly executes the _ViewStart and then start rendering the other view and merges them.

@ {

    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_v1.cshtml";

}

< !DOCTYPE html >

    < html >

    < head >

    < meta name = "viewport"

content = "width=device-width" / >

    < title > ViewStart < /title> < /head> < body >

    < /body>

< /html>