Support @Inject, @model, @using declaration in viewstart

[pranavkm]

Related discussion: #825

The plan is to have any directives declared in _ViewStart affect pages in the hierarchy. For instance @using MyNamespace declared in the root _ViewStart wouid cause a using MyNamespace; to be generated in all views in the application.

The merge strategy happens on a per-directive basis - for instance for @Inject are merged by name@inject FooType Html in _ViewStart and @inject BarType Html in the page would result in the latter being chosen.

The token TModel would represent the model of the current page. When adding a directive to a page, the token would be replaced by the value specified by @model.

[Shazwazza]

I had this working a very long time ago but have upgraded my sln to dnx and MVC6 beta4 and no the @Inject on a _ViewStart page doesn't seem to propagate to views using it. It could be something I'm doing wrong or is it a known issue?

[pranavkm]

@Shazwazza we added a new file _GlobalImport.cshtml to import these directives. The idea was to avoid repurposing _ViewStart to support this feature. See - #2020

[Shazwazza]

great thanks, will give it a try