MVC Areas - View not found

Question

I have a project that is using MVC areas. The area has the entire project in it while the main \"Views/Controllers/Models\" folders outside the Areas are empty barring a dis

Answer 1

Add the RouteArea attribute on the Controller class so MVC knows to use the "XYZ" Area for the views (and then you can set the AreaPrefix to empty string so routes do not need to start with "XYZ").

[RouteArea("Xyz", AreaPrefix = "")]
public class XyzController : Controller   
{
...
}