Accessing views with absolute paths on ASP.NET MVC

Question

I'm trying to access a view in this way:

return View(@"~\Items\Details.aspx");

and I get this error:

The view '~\Items\Details.aspx' or its master could not be found. The following locations were searched: ~\Items\Details.aspx

On the ItemsController, in the Details action, returning View() works just fine. Why can't I access that view from another controller?

Jan Jongboom · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-14 14:25:12Z

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Prefix it with '/Views' should help.

return View("~/Views/Items/Details.aspx");

answered Sep 14, 2009 at 14:25

Jan Jongboom

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I ran into this today, used this suggestion but also needed to add the ".cshtml" extension.

Palantir · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-14 14:23:35Z

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You can make the Items view a shared one (you put it in the Views/Shared folder), then you can just call View("Items") and it will work.

answered Sep 14, 2009 at 14:23

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Actually, you can. It's not a good design IMHO, but it does work.

Sorry, I edited it in the meanwhile, because I noticed I was wrong: I was suggesting that you could not call views by absolute path.