ASP.NET MVC How to specify which folder the View pages reside in?

Question

Hi, by default the ASP.NET MVC engine searches the following folders for View pages:

• /Views/{Controller_Name}/{Action}.aspx
• /Views/Shared/{Action}.aspx

However I want to put some of my View pages like this:

• /Views/{Namespace}/{Controller_Name}/{Action}.aspx

How can I let the engine look for this?

Answer 1

You have to create a class derived from IViewEngine interface and register this class in Aplication_Start event in Global.asax.cs Check this link text, but there are some differences with 1.0

Answer 2

I didn`t try this by myself, but it looks quite good.

Answer 3

I came up with a different solution that didn't require me to roll my own view engine.

Basically, I wanted to keep MVC as "Convention" driven as possible, but I still wanted to organize all of my "Admin" views under the ~/Views/Admin folder.

Example:

• ~/Views/Admin/User/
• ~/Views/Admin/News/
• ~/Views/Admin/Blog/

My solution was to create a new base class for my specific admin controllers and "force" the path to the view for that controller.

I have a blog post and sample code here: Organize your views in ASP.Net MVC