Asp.net-mvc – Add views in sub-folders in ASP.NET MVC 3

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I am working on ASP.NET MVC 3 project. I want to divide controllers, models, and views in sub-folders for the sake of simplicity. I able to do it with controllers and models but when i create a view it creates automatically to root folder Views, Is there any way to solve this problem?

eg. I can create

model class as,

Models/Finance/Bank.cs
Models/Finance/Finance.cs
Models/Production/Production.cs

controller as,

Controllers/Finance/BankController/Create
Controllers/Finance/BudgetController/Create
Controllers/Production/ProcessController/Create

but where i tried to create view for above actions, it creates in to,

Views/Bank/Create.aspx
Views/Budget/Create.aspx
Views/Process/Create.aspx

I want it should be like,

Views/Finance/Bank/Create.aspx
Views/Finance/Budget/Create.aspx
Views/Prodution/Process/Create.aspx

Is there any way to create views in same sub-folder as of that created for Controllers and models? thanks!

Best Answer

following steps worked for me,

Create sub-folders as you want in Views (root folder). in my case it was Finance & Production.
Simply drag automatically created folders in Views in to appropriate Sub-folders. in my case Bank & Budget in to Finance and Process in to Production
While you return a view from controller action, give full path of view as,

return View("~/Views/Finance/Bank/Create.aspx")

return View("~/Views/Finance/Budget/Create.aspx")

return View("~/Views/Production/Process/Create.aspx")

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From the readme word doc for RC1 (not indexed by google)

ASP.NET Compiler Post-Build Step

Currently, errors within a view file are not detected until run time. To let you detect these errors at compile time, ASP.NET MVC projects now include an MvcBuildViews property, which is disabled by default. To enable this property, open the project file and set the MvcBuildViews property to true, as shown in the following example:

<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
  </PropertyGroup>

Note Enabling this feature adds some overhead to the build time.

You can update projects that were created with previous releases of MVC to include build-time validation of views by performing the following steps:

Open the project file in a text editor.
Add the following element under the top-most <PropertyGroup> element: <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
At the end of the project file, uncomment the <Target Name="AfterBuild"> element and modify it to match the following:

<Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(MvcBuildViews)'=='true'">
    <AspNetCompiler VirtualPath="temp" PhysicalPath="$(ProjectDir)\..\$(ProjectName)" />
</Target>

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Here is a mostly clean attribute-based solution to the multiple submit button issue based heavily on the post and comments from Maarten Balliauw.

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)]
public class MultipleButtonAttribute : ActionNameSelectorAttribute
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Argument { get; set; }

    public override bool IsValidName(ControllerContext controllerContext, string actionName, MethodInfo methodInfo)
    {
        var isValidName = false;
        var keyValue = string.Format("{0}:{1}", Name, Argument);
        var value = controllerContext.Controller.ValueProvider.GetValue(keyValue);

        if (value != null)
        {
            controllerContext.Controller.ControllerContext.RouteData.Values[Name] = Argument;
            isValidName = true;
        }

        return isValidName;
    }
}

razor:

<form action="" method="post">
 <input type="submit" value="Save" name="action:Save" />
 <input type="submit" value="Cancel" name="action:Cancel" />
</form>

and controller:

[HttpPost]
[MultipleButton(Name = "action", Argument = "Save")]
public ActionResult Save(MessageModel mm) { ... }

[HttpPost]
[MultipleButton(Name = "action", Argument = "Cancel")]
public ActionResult Cancel(MessageModel mm) { ... }

Update: Razor pages looks to provide the same functionality out of the box. For new development, it may be preferable.

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