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I am new to MVC so please bear with me. I am trying to find out who calls Viewstart.cshtml and what is the sequence of steps involved there? is it called after the route table is accessed or before it?

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The RazorViewEngine has an internal readonly field "ViewStartFileName" which specifies the name of the start view. _ViewStart.cshtml (or .vbhtml) is called each time a RazorView instance is rendered (specifically when the RenderView() method is being executed). So the "who" would be the RazorViewEngine with its corresponding RazorView class (including their base classes). To get a quite good overview on the MVC request pipeline I recommend this pdf.

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Hi @Andreas Great answer, but I have a question, is it possible to change the name of the "ViewStartFileName" ?
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Check the image below... (What is the 'page lifecycle' of an ASP.NET MVC page, compared to ASP.NET WebForms?)

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