Shared views in MVC: View(string, object) gives view not found error

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I have several action methods that can use the same view. I've tried calling View with eg

return View("~/views/contact/Emails", model);

The view "Emails" exists in the specified directory (Resharper underlines the URL), but when I run the application I get the error "The view '~/views/contact/Emails' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched: ~/views/contact/Emails"

jrummell · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-22 18:23:20Z

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Assuming you're inside ContactController, you can simply pass in the name of the view.

return View("Emails", model);

MVC uses routing to find Views, so it doesn't care about the file path, just the name (at least at this point in the request pipeline).

answered May 22, 2012 at 18:23

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Jonathan Allin Over a year ago

That does the trick. Just using the name of the view works. Which suggests that the response at stackoverflow.com/questions/5938837/… is wrong.

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