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Asked: 2026-05-24T17:30:59+00:00

I’m trying to use: var viewEngineResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindView(ControllerContext, myViewName, null); as part of a

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I’m trying to use:

var viewEngineResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindView(ControllerContext, myViewName, null);

as part of a process to render the contents of a view to send nice formatted emails. I’m using it inside an Orchard Controller. I have used similar code outside of Orchard in an MVC project and it works fine.

However in Orchard running this code fails to find the view I’m looking for and returns a view engine result that has searched 0 locations.

viewEngineResult has the following values after it is called:

  • SearchedLocations: Count = 0,
  • View: null,
  • ViewEngine: null

Is there a reason this doesn’t work in Orchard and is there a way to make it work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you’ll want to take a close look at Orchard.Framework/Mvc/ViewEngines, in particular IViewEngineProvider and ThemeAwareViewEngine. There’s a lot more going on when in Orchard, such as themes, multi-tenancy, and a richer environment in general that may be needed to make this work.
    What’s likely happening here is that the view engines don’t have enough information to resolve a view and thus opt out of the chain. You might want to put a breakpoint into ThemeAwareViewEngine.FindView, and then inspect the private dependency fields of that class. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were null, because getting to FindView through statics will probably not allow dependency injection to do its stuff properly.
    Then again I’m just guessing.

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