I used the code below so far with ASP.NET MVC v1 and v2 but when I added an Area today to my application, the controller for the area couldn't find any views in my Areas/Views/controllerView folder. It issued the very well known exception that it searched those 4 standard folders but it did not look under Areas..
How can I change the code so that it will work with Areas? Maybe an example of custom view engine under ASP.NET MVC 2 with Areas support? The information about it on the net is very scarse..
Here's the code:
public class PendingViewEngine : VirtualPathProviderViewEngine
{
public PendingViewEngine()
{
// This is where we tell MVC where to look for our files.
/* {0} = view name or master page name
* {1} = controller name */
MasterLocationFormats = new[] {"~/Views/Shared/{0}.master", "~/Views/{0}.master"};
ViewLocationFormats = new[]
{
"~/Views/{1}/{0}.aspx", "~/Views/Shared/{0}.aspx", "~/Views/Shared/{0}.ascx",
"~/Views/{1}/{0}.ascx"
};
PartialViewLocationFormats = new[] {"~/Views/{1}/{0}.ascx", "~/Views/Shared/{0}.ascx"};
}
protected override IView CreatePartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialPath)
{
return new WebFormView(partialPath, "");
}
protected override IView CreateView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewPath, string masterPath)
{
return new WebFormView(viewPath, masterPath);
}
}
