E.g. I have three payment controllers, each specific to a third party payment processor, so under my root Views folder, I have one folder for each of these controllers. I would like to move these into Views\Payments\Processor1, Views\Payments\Processor2, etc. instead of the current Views\Processor1 etc.
I am not ready to implement areas yet, so I'm hoping there is some way I can tell MVC to also look in subfolders, or something like that. Can this be done and how?
You could write a custom view engine and override the default view locations:
public class MyRazorViewEngine : RazorViewEngine
{
public MyRazorViewEngine() : base()
{
base.ViewLocationFormats = base.ViewLocationFormats.Concat(new[] {
"~/Views/Payments/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
"~/Views/Payments/{1}/{0}.vbhtml"
}).ToArray();
base.PartialViewLocationFormats = base.PartialViewLocationFormats.Concat(new[] {
"~/Views/Payments/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
"~/Views/Payments/{1}/{0}.vbhtml"
}).ToArray();
}
}
and then register it in Application_Start
:
ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new MyRazorViewEngine());
Do you need for the views to be searched for? You can specify which view to use in your View() call, complete with path.