Modifying view location for partial views in ASP.NET MVC

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I would like to have both these views:

~/Views/Customer/Index.aspx
~/Views/Customer/Index.ascx

I would like to setup my MVC website so that when I call return View(viewModel) from the CustomerController.Index() action method, that it looks up the aspx file, but if I call return PartialView(viewModel) that it looks up the ascx file.

I believe the magic involves subclassing ViewEngine and ControllerFactory (so that the ViewLocator.ViewLocationFormats can be modified), but want to check that I'm not over-engineering this solution.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Sorry for not being able to provide an answer, but what's PartialView() there for anyway? I thought the point was to provide the fuctionality you are trying to achieve. — Adrian Grigore
– Adrian Grigore, Commented Sep 11, 2010 at 16:59
I second @JcMalta's suggestion. You're probably best renaming Index.ascx to something like IndexPartial.ascx. Why re-invent the wheel if you're going to return a PartialView for it anyway? — Dan Atkinson
– Dan Atkinson, Commented Sep 11, 2010 at 18:20
I think my answer to a different question may provide some help stackoverflow.com/questions/3363847/…. The issue is that the partial view locations are set to be the same as the viewlocations. — Ahmad
– Ahmad, Commented Sep 11, 2010 at 19:09
@Ahmad, you could link to your other answer in the answer. Hate to see you not get accepted for this because you have the perfect solution. — John Farrell
– John Farrell, Commented Sep 11, 2010 at 21:21

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:32:46Z

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Based on the comments above and the suggestion, I think my answer to a different question may provide some help - Render Partial of same name as parent View - Crashes WebDev.WebServer40.exe

The issue is that the PartialViewLocationFormats are set to be the same as the ViewLocationFormats. It does not make sense to that a partial view would be an aspx page.

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Andrew Bullock · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-12 12:13:31Z

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override WebFormsViewEngine and reimplement ViewLocationFormats and/or PartialViewLocationFormats

answered Sep 12, 2010 at 12:13

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