Code behind in ASP.NET MVC

Question

What is the purpose of the code behind view file in ASP.NET MVC besides setting of the generic parameter of ViewPage ?

Answer 1

The codebehind provides some of the strong typing as well as the intellisense support that you get in the view. If you don't care about any of these two features, you can remove it.

For example, I typically use the NVelocity ViewEngine because it's clean and pretty straight forward.