How to organise Views into folders in Asp.net visual studio?

Question

I have been forking on a project for a while now and I ended up having a lot of view for different models. I was wandering whether it is possible to organise these views into sub folders. So just to be clear I want to do the following:

Controllers:

      MyControllers(Folder)->
         MyFirstController.cs
         MYSubcontroller(Folder)->
             MySubController.cs

Views:

      MyFirst(Folder)->
         Index.cshtml
         MYSub(Folder)->
             Index.cshtml

There are a lot of them and I can find a particular controller more easier if they are split into different categories. I would like to do this for views as well — DalekSupreme, Aug 19 '15 at 12:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '15 at 12:48

Most basic option would be for your controller routes to specify a view explicitly when returning:

return View("PATH-TO-YOUR-VIEW");

But I'm not a fan of this approach as you lose the nice built in MVC conventions.

By default, the Razor View Engine will use the following conventions when locating views:

~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml
~/Views/{1}/{0}.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/{0}.vbhtml

The view name
The controller name

With this in mind, if you have a controller named MySubController with the default Index action, you would normally have a view file:

~/Views/MySub/Index.cshtml

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

You are allowed to put views and controllers wherever you want. You can easily customize view paths on App_Start event. See tha answer in this topic: Can I specify a custom location to "search for views" in ASP.NET MVC?

I would though recommend using the standard project structure and paths. It would makes life easier for other developers that work with your code in the future eventually.

How to organise Views into folders in Asp.net visual studio?

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