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Asked: 2026-05-16T13:53:20+00:00

I am writing a VirtualPathProvider to dynamically load my MVC views, which are located

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I am writing a VirtualPathProvider to dynamically load my MVC views, which are located in a different directory. I successfully intercept the call before MVC (in FileExists), but in my VirtualPathProvider, I get the raw, pre-routed url like:

~/Apps/Administration/Account/LogOn

Personally, I know that MVC will look for

~/Apps/Administration/Views/Account/LogOn.aspx

and that I should be reading the file contents from 

D:\SomeOtherNonWebRootDirectory\Apps\Administration\Views\Account\LogOn.aspx

but I’d rather not hard code the logic to “add the directory named Views and add aspx to the end”.

Where is this logic stored and how can I get it into my virtual path provider?

Thanks. Sorry if I’m not being clear.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer was that MVC was not finding my controller properly. If MVC does in fact find your controller properly, there should be two requests processed by the VirtualPathProvider:

    1. An initial request with the acutal url requested (ie. http://…/Account/LogOn).

    2. A subsequent FileExists check for http://…/Views/Account/LogOn.aspx, after the request in 1. returns false calling FileExists. This actually retuns the aspx content.

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