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I am wondering if there is a way to store partial views outside of the application's root folder. The advantage being that all applications would be able to use these partials, and there would be a single location to make HTML updates without re-deploying a new .bin to each app. 

@Html.Partial("../../../../../../../../PartialTest/PartialTest.cshtml")

This is giving me the error:

Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory.

Is something like this possible?

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I am wondering if there is a way to store partial views outside of the application's root folder.

You will have to write a custom virtual path provider if you want to support that. For example you may take a look at the following question for an example of such a custom provider reading views from embedded resources. You could adapt it to read views from whatever location you want.

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