ViewComponents should respect the global @inherits declaration in _ViewImports

[muratcakir]

At the moment this declaration does not seem to be applied to a ViewComponent

[Eilon]

@dougbu @pranavkm do you know if this is deliberate? This sounds like a bug to me.

[pranavkm]

It's not deliberate - they're treated as any other partial.

[dougbu]

On first glance, a view invoked from ViewComponent.View() should respect _ViewImports.cshtml. However we probably didn't implement this because view component views do not and (probably, think we have an issue open on this) should not respect _Layout.cshtml. Respecting _ViewImports.cshtml would introduce a new case where some of that file would be ignored or cause errors.

[Eilon]

But _ViewImports is different from _ViewStart. I agree they shouldn't run _ViewStart.

[rynowak]

Agree with @Eilon - all of this work was done before we had the separation. This needs to be updated.

[ajaybhargavb]

This seems to work fine for ViewComponents without the @model declaration. This issue could be related to #3144.

[ajaybhargavb]

Tracked by #3144. Closing this.