How to use areas with controllers from a different assembly?

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I'm starting a new ASP.NET MVC project, and I decided to put my controllers in a different assembly. Evertyhing works fine, but I have hit a problem: I created a new area in my MVC Project, called Administration. I have an AdminController Class in my seperate assembly which is supposed to return views from my Admin area, but everytime it tries to return a view, it looks for it in the wrong place (~/Admin/SomeView.cshtml Instead of ~/Administration/Admin/SomeView.cshtml) How can I tell the controller to look for views in the wanted area?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:13:16Z

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Please take a look into this article. And also you problem was answered here.

Basically you will need to extend MvcViewEngine, to tell MVC to look for your Views in the different from standatd pathes:

public class YourMegaViewEngine : WebFormViewEngine
{
    public YourMegaViewEngine ()
    {
        ViewLocationFormats = new string[]
        {
            "~/Views/Administration/{1}/{0}.cshtml" //I may be wrong for you case, but this is the place to puth you path
        };
    }
}

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:13

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2 Comments

ItayMaoz Over a year ago

That's not my problem... The controller (or ViewEngine...) can find my views, unless they are in an area. Your suggested solution won't help in my case, but thx anyway :)

Restuta Over a year ago

Why not, have you looked at the first article? Areas is just another folders above views, you can solve this problem going the same way.

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