Question

So I am creating a site with two bindings

routes.MapRoute(
  name: "Default", 
  url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
  defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

routes.MapRoute(
  name: "DefaultAdmin",
  url: "Admin/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
  defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

The idea is I want to have EndUsers to access the normal pages (/account/login etc etc ) but have a admin only portion of the site (with a different layout) for admin users.

The question is kinda two fold :-

1. In terms of controllers it looks like MVC just looks in the Controllers folder, is there a way to seperate out AdminControllers and Regular controllers to keep things organised?

2. I would like to have a separate “master view” appear for the admin than the regular, currently I’m just using _layout.cshtml from _start.cshtml but I’d like to be able to use _layout.cshtml and _adminLayout.cshtml without prefixing every view with the name of the view (if not then I can live with this one easily enough).

Any help would be apprechited.

Answer 1

You can place controllers anywhere in the assembly as long as they are derived from System.Web.Mvc.Controller class they will be identified by the routing logic.

You could look at “Areas” in MVC to help out with your specific need.