Question

I am working on an ASP.Net MVC 3 RC project. I have one area named Drivers. I have a LoadPartial() action in a controller in the Drivers area that returns a PartialView(string, object); When this is returned I get an error on my webpage that says “The partial view ‘PublicAttendanceCode’ was not found.” It searched the following locations:

~/Views/AttendanceEvent/PublicAttendanceCode.aspx
~/Views/AttendanceEvent/PublicAttendanceCode.ascx
~/Views/Shared/PublicAttendanceCode.aspx
~/Views/Shared/PublicAttendanceCode.ascx
~/Views/AttendanceEvent/PublicAttendanceCode.cshtml
~/Views/AttendanceEvent/PublicAttendanceCode.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/PublicAttendanceCode.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/PublicAttendanceCode.vbhtml

Why is it not searching in the Drivers Area?

I have the following pretty basic routes in Global.asax.cs:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default", // Route name
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home",
              action = "Index",
              id = UrlParameter.Optional  // Parameter defaults
            }
    );
}

And in DriversAreaRegistration.cs

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
    context.MapRoute(
        "Drivers_default",
        "Drivers/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        new { action = "RequestLeave", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );
}

What am I missing that will make it look in the drivers area for the partial?

Answer 1

How are you providing area name to PartialView() method? I think you should be passing it in new { area = “Drivers” } as routeValues parameter.