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How do you place controllers and related views in separate folders in ASP.NET MVC

I would like to group all my Controllers with related Views in separate folders. How can I achieve this?

+4  A: 
  1. Don't.
  2. But if you must, write a custom ViewEngine to locate the views. I wrote a (now out of date) example here. ViewLocator has since been renamed to ViewEngine.
  3. See (1)

Update: If you actually meant you're looking for an "areas" feature, try this.

Craig Stuntz  2009-03-02 01:46:28
I think he means the same thing as areas in monorail, which there is nothing wrong with so I have no idea why you say don't.
Mike Geise  2009-03-02 06:56:48
Areas don't work that way; perhaps it's what he really meant, though. See http://blog.codeville.net/2008/11/05/app-areas-in-aspnet-mvc-take-2/ for a good design for that.
Craig Stuntz  2009-03-02 12:43:00
I definitely meant the concept of Areas highlighted by Phil Haack.
gugulethun  2009-03-02 13:17:03
OK, then see the update / link.
Craig Stuntz  2009-03-02 13:56:53
Why 1?, why don't?
Paco  2009-03-04 22:45:47
Paco, Views shouldn't know about Controllers, so they should be in different namespaces, and hence different folders.
Craig Stuntz  2009-03-05 01:32:06
But views shouldn't know about each other too.
Paco  2009-03-05 09:10:23
Um, true, though I've never actually seen anyone have a problem with that. Making controller<->view dependencies incorrect is *common*, though.
Craig Stuntz  2009-03-05 12:32:23
My views depend on controller because I use Html.ActionLink or Html.BeginForm. I don't understand what's bad about that.
Paco  2009-03-05 17:57:25
That isn't a dependency. That's a string. Dependencies are different.
Craig Stuntz  2009-03-05 18:17:36
I consider something depending on something else a dependency. A form is posted to a specific controller action and it doesn't matter if a string or generic with lambda is used.
Paco  2009-03-05 18:47:50
I'm not sure yet if I want to create a directory with controller/viewmodel/view or a directory per type like the default
Paco  2009-03-05 18:48:35
My $0.02: Use the default unless you have a *really* good reason not to. About dependencies: I think we'll just have to disagree on that.
Craig Stuntz  2009-03-05 19:12:52

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