How to call a View in another folder-CodePudding

I am building my first Asp.net core webservice, that will host a bunch of API's but also must provide a few webpages.

In my home controller I have this code

public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        private readonly ILogger<HomeController> _logger;

        public HomeController(ILogger<HomeController> logger)
        {
            _logger = logger;
        }

        public IActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public IActionResult Privacy()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public IActionResult Info()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public IActionResult Contact()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public IActionResult AppMessages()
        {
            return View();
        }
        and so on....

This all works well, except fot the last one AppMessages and this is because I would like to have this one in a seperate folder, like this

If I move the file AppMessages.cshtml into the folder Views/Home then it works, but I would like to put this one in a seperate folder because I got a few more to do and I would like to keep them apart from my other Home pages.

How can I do this ?

EDIT

I also tried with putting the folder VLA under the folder Home but it did not help

I always get this error

An unhandled exception occurred while processing the request. InvalidOperationException: The view 'AppMessages' was not found. The following locations were searched: /Views/Home/AppMessages.cshtml /Views/Shared/AppMessages.cshtml

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewEngines.ViewEngineResult.EnsureSuccessful(IEnumerable originalLocations) InvalidOperationException: The view 'AppMessages' was not found. The following locations were searched: /Views/Home/AppMessages.cshtml /Views/Shared/AppMessages.cshtml Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewEngines.ViewEngineResult.EnsureSuccessful(IEnumerable originalLocations) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.ViewResultExecutor.ExecuteAsync(ActionContext context, ViewResult result) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewResult.ExecuteResultAsync(ActionContext context) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.g__Awaited|30_0<TFilter, TFilterAsync>(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task lastTask, State next, Scope scope, object state, bool isCompleted) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.Rethrow(ResultExecutedContextSealed context) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.ResultNext<TFilter, TFilterAsync>(ref State next, ref Scope scope, ref object state, ref bool isCompleted) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.InvokeResultFilters() Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.g__Awaited|25_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task lastTask, State next, Scope scope, object state, bool isCompleted) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.Rethrow(ResourceExecutedContextSealed context) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.Next(ref State next, ref Scope scope, ref object state, ref bool isCompleted) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.InvokeFilterPipelineAsync() Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.g__Awaited|17_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task task, IDisposable scope) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Infrastructure.ResourceInvoker.g__Awaited|17_0(ResourceInvoker invoker, Task task, IDisposable scope) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.EndpointMiddleware.g__AwaitRequestTask|6_0(Endpoint endpoint, Task requestTask, ILogger logger) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization.AuthorizationMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context) Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.DeveloperExceptionPageMiddleware.Invoke(HttpContext context)

CodePudding user response：

You can use:

return View("Views/VLA/AppMessages.cshtml");

return View("../VLA/AppMessages");

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