MVC Areas and _Layout Issue

[mattfraley]

I am using MVC areas for my administration. When I send an email from a controller in the admin area, it uses the _Layout.cshtml from the admin area, rather than the _Layout.cshtml in the Views\UserMailer folder. Even if I specify the Layout in the view like below, it still uses the _Layout in the admin area.

@{ Layout = "~/Views/UserMailer/_Layout.cshtml"; }

[mattfraley]

I guess I spoke too soon. In the UserMailer class, I commented out "MasterName="_Layout"; and it worked just fine.

Thanks for a great product!

[lruckman]

How did I miss that?! Thanks just what I was looking for!

[ghost]

This didn't work for me. Any other ideas?

[waris041]

This didn't work for me either.Now mvcmailer start using the master_layout.

[mbasirati]

didn't work for me too.

[mbasirati]

Rename the _Layout.cshtml in your mailer folder to something else such as _LayoutMailer.cshtml

Rename the MasterName in your mailer constructor to the same as follows:

 public class UserMailer : MailerBase
{
    public UserMailer()
    {
        MasterName = "_LayoutMailer";
    }
    ...
}

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