Question

I have an Area called Admin. The folder structure in Visual Studio is this:

Areas
   Admin
      Controllers
      Views

I have a controller called AccountController in which I have a Action called Verify. I have this line of code in this action:

return View("EmailVerificationComplete");

But, I get this error:

The view ‘EmailVerificationComplete’ or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/Account/EmailVerificationComplete.aspx
~/Views/Account/EmailVerificationComplete.ascx
~/Views/Shared/EmailVerificationComplete.aspx
~/Views/Shared/EmailVerificationComplete.ascx
~/Views/Account/EmailVerificationComplete.cshtml
~/Views/Account/EmailVerificationComplete.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/EmailVerificationComplete.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/EmailVerificationComplete.vbhtml

Why is this? Why does MVC not know to look in the Views folder relative to the Admin area?

How do I solve this?

Thanks,

Sachin

Answer 1

Why does MVC not know to look in the Views folder relative to the Admin area?

Because your AccountController is not inside the Admin area. It’s probably in ~/Controllers/AdminController.cs so by convention ASP.NET MVC will look in ~/Views/Shared or ~/Views/Account for its corresponding views.