Change the Views location

Question

I am developing a website in MVC 2.0. I want to change the View folder location in my website. I wanted to keep the views folder inside other folders, When I try to do so i

Answer 1

You'll need to create a custom view engine and use that instead. Fortunately you can just inherit from the default one and change the locations on the constructor. Here's a guide to creating your own view engine: http://www.singingeels.com/Articles/Creating_a_Custom_View_Engine_in_ASPNET_MVC.aspx

From the article:

protected void Application_Start()
{
    //... other things up here.

    // I want to REMOVE the ASP.NET ViewEngine...
    ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();

    // and then add my own :)
    ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new HoTMeaTViewEngine());
}

public class HoTMeaTViewEngine : VirtualPathProviderViewEngine
{
    public HoTMeaTViewEngine()
    {
        // This is where we tell MVC where to look for our files. This says
        // to look for a file at "Views/Controller/Action.html"
        base.ViewLocationFormats = new string[] { "~/Views/{1}/{0}.html" };

        base.PartialViewLocationFormats = base.ViewLocationFormats;
    }
}