The view 'Index' or its master was not found

Question

I\'m new to the C# MVC project type and when I created an empty C# MVC project, I noticed the following error:

The view \'Index\' or its master was not found         


        

Answer 1

If you manually deployed the code to an instance of IIS, make sure that the App Pool Identity that is being used to for that application in IIS has rights to the folders in the application.

A good way to diagnose if it's something wrong with your code or something wrong with your IIS settings is to run it in the VS 201X debugger. If it runs there, but won't run under IIS directly, it's a good chance that the App Pool Identity security is jacked up.