Does a view exist in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

Is it possible to determine if a specific view name exists from within a controller before rendering the view?

I have a requirement to dynamically determine the name

Answer 1

If you want to re-use this across multiple controller actions, building on the solution given by Dave, you can define a custom view result as follows:

public class CustomViewResult : ViewResult
{
    protected override ViewEngineResult FindView(ControllerContext context)
    {
        string name = SomeMethodToGetViewName();

        ViewEngineResult result = ViewEngines.Engines.FindView(context, name, null);

        if (result.View != null)
        {
            return result;
        }

        return base.FindView(context);
    }

    ...
}

Then in your action simply return an instance of your custom view:

public ActionResult Index()
{ 
    return new CustomViewResult();
}