ASP.NET MVC2 Routing / Folder structure

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In ASP.NET MVC2,

How do I change routing/folder structure so I can have

Views\FOLDER\Account\ChangePass.aspx

Rather than:

Views\Account\ChangePass.aspx

I don't actually want to do it for the account, but I'd like to structure things like that, e.g.

SO I can have two different views like:

Views\Categories\
Views\Admin\Categories\

These would display completely differently.

All I want to do is to be able to create my own subfolders to push the views into, not a seperate folder for each different controller...............................................................

Do you want to change how MVC looks up the aspx file that contains your view (a ViewEngine feature) or the shape of the URLs that are used to access your resources (a Routing feature)? — marcind
– marcind, Commented Aug 26, 2010 at 0:48

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Sounds to me like you need to look into using areas... Have a look at this article for more info:

Walkthrough: Organizing an ASP.NET MVC Application using Areas

Excerpt:

However, some applications can have a large number of controllers, and each controller can be associated with several views. For these types of applications, the default ASP.NET MVC project structure can become unwieldy.

To accommodate large projects, ASP.NET MVC lets you partition Web applications into smaller units that are referred to as areas. Areas provide a way to separate a large MVC Web application into smaller functional groupings. An area is effectively an MVC structure inside an application. An application could contain several MVC structures (areas).

HTHs,
Charles

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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baron Over a year ago

Looks very good but I followed the tute and the solution doesn't work, unfortunately I think the code samples are wrong, judging from the comments...

ten5peed Over a year ago

Hmmm, I'll have a look at my solution at home tonight (or over the weekend) and see if I can improve on that walkthrough.

Tahbaza · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-26 01:45:04Z

Go with the asp.net MVC convention for view location; if you want to have different url paths you need to look at creating your own routes, other than the default single route given to you. (See this primer.)

Here's an example of a route that you might add in your Global.asax to have the desired result but you'll have to map this route to a controller action appropriately. Really, your need to decide on the pattern to meet the need of your app...

        routes.MapRoute(
            "FolderRoute",                                             
            "{controller}/{folder}/{action}/{id}",                     
            new { controller = "Home", folder = "yourFolderDefault", action = "Index", id = "" }
        );

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