Ascx in different folder?

Question

I am working on an web application that uses themes and different master pages. Each master page is at the shared folder with their names; such as Shared\Themes\MyTheme\Site.master and the views are at \ControllerName\ListUsers.aspx

In the controller; I call the view : return View("ListUsers",ThemeEngine.MasterPage,Model); So far everything works fine; however when I try to call RenderPartial inside the ListUsers, I am getting usercontrol can't be found error because my user controls are at the master page folder such as \Shared\Themes\MyTheme\SingleUser.ascx Is there a way to tell the framework to look for the user controls in a different folder than \Shared but \Shared\ThemeNAme etc...

Answer 1

How to change default view location scheme in ASP.NET MVC?

Answer 2

Yep. You can specify the path to the View using the virtual root. There's nothing stopping you from passing in a full path.

return View("~/Shared/Themes/MyTheme/SingleUser.ascx");