ASP.NET MVC controller return partial view that is not in Shared folder-CodePudding

I have this method inside my controller that calls this partial view:

return PartialView("_tinzProdListPageTemplate", tblStoreLocation);

That partial view is inside the Shared folder and the above code works fine and loads the view. But now I want to move _tinzProdListPageTemplate to another folder that is inside the Shared folder called Templates so that I can better organize my project.

I tried these but they don't work. It seems that only when calling straight from the default Shared folder, can you load a partial view from the controller. (I even tried adding .cshtml to the end as the extension on the examples above but did not work either)

return PartialView("Templates/_tinzProdListPageTemplate", tblStoreLocation);

return PartialView("Shared/Templates/_tinzProdListPageTemplate", tblStoreLocation);

return PartialView("~/Shared/Templates/_tinzProdListPageTemplate", tblStoreLocation);

So how do I return a PartialView that is not inside the Shared folder. Its inside a folder that is inside the Shared folder?

I am using ASP.NET MVC 5 running on the .NET Framework.

This is the error I get:

The partial view '_tinzProdListPageTemplate' was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:

~/Views/Store/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.aspx
~/Views/Store/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.ascx
~/Views/Shared/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.aspx
~/Views/Shared/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.ascx
~/Views/Store/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.cshtml
~/Views/Store/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/_tinzProdListPageTemplate.vbhtml

CodePudding user response：

A complete view name would look like this

"~/Areas/Public/Views/Home/Index.cshtml"

I think you only forgot to add the extension at the end.

Maybe you want a CustomViewEngine like here
Working with subfolders in custom view engine

If you register a custom view engine then you can set all the search locations like

ViewLocation, PartialViewLocation, MasterLocation