ASP.NET MVC RC1 - Custom View Engine for Areas - FindView override not firing

Question

Hi,

I have a custom view engine in ASP.NET MVC and since upgrading to RC1 my custom view engine that implements Areas as in this post by Phil Haack does not enter the override method FindView, thus breaking any controllers that sit within an area as the application is unable to find them. As I'm aware that a good number of people are using areas in their MVC applications, is anyone aware of a solution to this problem or why it happens?

Below is my findview method for reference.

    public override ViewEngineResult FindView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewName, string masterName)
    {
        ViewEngineResult areaResult = null;

        if (controllerContext.RouteData.Values.ContainsKey("area"))
        {
            string areaViewName = FormatViewName(controllerContext, viewName);
            areaResult = base.FindView(controllerContext, areaViewName, masterName);
            if (areaResult != null && areaResult.View != null)
            {
                return areaResult;
            }
            string sharedAreaViewName = FormatSharedViewName(controllerContext, viewName);
            areaResult = base.FindView(controllerContext, sharedAreaViewName, masterName);
            if (areaResult != null && areaResult.View != null)
            {
                return areaResult;
            }
        }

        return base.FindView(controllerContext, viewName, masterName);
    }

Answer 1

They have added a parameter to the FindView Method. You can now specify to usecache on both FindView and FindPartialView.

Answer 2

i have same problem just cant override

public override ViewEngineResult FindPartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialViewName)

and what usecache param exactly do?

any ideas

Answer 3

And by the way, Phil has updated his post to work with RC1. Check here