One Layout for multiple ASP.NET MVC applications?

Question

ASP.NET

Good afternoon, hackers.
There are several ASP.NET MVC (Razor) sites that use one MasterPage (Layout).
At the moment, each project has its own Layout with the same content, and in order to make changes in it, you have to edit them all, which is very inconvenient - you can forget to correct some.
How can I make sure that there is one Layout file that can be used in several applications?

Answer 1

You can try to dig in the direction of VirtualPathProvider or BuildEngine - one of them can be trained to find this file, wherever it is.

Answer 2

As an option.
Put this file somewhere and instead of adding copies, link it to projects.
support.microsoft.com/kb/306234
When adding an existing file, in the dialog on the Add button there is a drop-down list with the Add As Link item.