Asp.net mvc views and strongly typed viewdata

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I prefer strongly typed viewdata for my asp.net mvc views for various reasons and I actually preferred the Views with codebehinds as they were in the earlier asp.net mvc previews because the codehind was a natural place to define the poco viewdata class as they generally have a 1:1 relationship with the actual view.

Are there any way to have the codebehind in asp.net rtm views or is this not a good approach?

EDIT:
The only reason I would like to have codebehind is that I see the ViewData as a property of the view. If the view was a class then the ViewData was one of its properties and it feels un-natural to define this in a separate assembly.

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After almost a year together with MVC I can confirm I have not needed code-behind for views even once. If you use code-behind you're likely still thinking WebForms. Drop it.

Views should be there to just display the model data. Simple decisions like what CSS class to apply can be performed directly in the view within server tags. More complex decisions should go to the controller or business logic.

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Asp.net-mvc – Compile Views in ASP.NET MVC

From the readme word doc for RC1 (not indexed by google)

ASP.NET Compiler Post-Build Step

Currently, errors within a view file are not detected until run time. To let you detect these errors at compile time, ASP.NET MVC projects now include an MvcBuildViews property, which is disabled by default. To enable this property, open the project file and set the MvcBuildViews property to true, as shown in the following example:

<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
  </PropertyGroup>

Note Enabling this feature adds some overhead to the build time.

You can update projects that were created with previous releases of MVC to include build-time validation of views by performing the following steps:

Open the project file in a text editor.
Add the following element under the top-most <PropertyGroup> element: <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
At the end of the project file, uncomment the <Target Name="AfterBuild"> element and modify it to match the following:

<Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(MvcBuildViews)'=='true'">
    <AspNetCompiler VirtualPath="temp" PhysicalPath="$(ProjectDir)\..\$(ProjectName)" />
</Target>

Asp – MS MVC – Can I somehow globally fill in strongly typed ViewData/Model for all the Views

Maybe better way to put User into the HttpContext? In global.asax

protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)

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