Question

Ok. Googling fail probably and I remember reading about this a while back but can’t find it.

I have a View and a Partial View in different directories. In a view I say @Html.RenderPartial("[partial view name]"); how does RenderPartial figure out where to look? It must be a convention but what is it?

My view is in: WebRoot\Views\Admin\ folder and partial is at WebRoot\Views\Admin\Partials

Not sure if this the right set up.

I’m using MVC 3 (Razor engine)

Answer 1

you can, but you have to register the routes, to tell the view engine where to look for. example in Global.asax.cs you’ll have:

ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new RDDBViewEngine()); 

and the class is:

public class RDDBViewEngine : RazorViewEngine
{
    private static string[] NewPartialViewFormats = new[] {         
        "~/Views/Shared/Partials/{0}.cshtml" ,       
        "~/Views/{0}.cshtml"
    };

    public RDDBViewEngine()
    {
        base.PartialViewLocationFormats = base.PartialViewLocationFormats.Union(NewPartialViewFormats).ToArray();
    }

}

{0} is for all the subfolders with partials.