The view 'Whatever' or its master could not be found.

Question

All of a sudden in this MVC site I have no views that can be found.

The view 'LoginUltraMind' or its master could not be found. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/MyAccount/LoginUltraMind.aspx
~/Views/MyAccount/LoginUltraMind.ascx
~/Views/Shared/LoginUltraMind.aspx
~/Views/Shared/LoginUltraMind.ascx
~/Views/MyAccount/storeNoNav.master
~/Views/Shared/storeNoNav.master

These files definitely exist at these locations -I am looking right at them! I updated to RC 1 yesterday and ran the site fine after that with 0 problems. Today I come back to it and this happens.. grr.....

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use fiddler to see exactly what is being requested. It is probably an issue resolving your web application base address.

Answer 2

Ended up I had 2 Pages sections in my web.config located in the views directory. I guess when I upgraded I wasn't paying attention and didn't see the previous section. Totally idiot maneuver on my part, but I do wish the error thrown would have told me that instead of a list of files it couldn't find.

Answer 3

Thanks Max!!! I hosed my web.config in the Views folder, too. I was doing some Castle Windsor stuff and accidentally edited the wrong web.config. >.< Your tip pointed me in the right direction. Thanks!

Answer 4

In my case, I had this problem and determined it was caused because I tried to access the 'Model' object on the declaration part of the page (directly on the <script runat="server"> section, outside of the Page Load event). The error raised indicating that the page doesn't exist is completely misleading in this case... Hope this helps others.