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Asked: 2026-06-14T13:58:42+00:00

For controllers Foo , Bar , and Baz , I have a folder structure

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For controllers Foo, Bar, and Baz, I have a folder structure that looks like this:

Views
    Foo
        Index.csthml
    Bar
        Index.csthml
    Baz
        Index.csthml
        _Rarity.cshtml

Must it really be this way? It’s a bit of a pain to determine the right file to edit because most of them are called Index.cshtml. Ideally I’d like something a bit more like this:

Views
    Foo.csthml
    Bar.csthml
    Baz.csthml
    Baz
        _Rarity.cshtml

I’m aware that I can pass a fully-qualified path to the View() method of the Controller class; i.e. inside of FooController‘s Index() method, I can call this.View("~/Views/Foo.cshtml"). Is this the best I can get?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This fits outside of the nature of the default Razor view engine; it’s a conventional approach to use the first setup as you mentioned above. However, you could build your own convention by customizing the Razor view engine, and the folder it needs to look for views in. However, the problem that you may experience with your design is conflicting file names; For instance, you could make the case that Foo.cshtml maps to Foo controller, Index action, but that means you couldn’t easily map Foo controller Another action method to a view without a special convention for it.

    Conclusion: yes, with customizations, but beware of complexity and edge cases.

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