creating a View within a View

I have a fairly large ASP.NET MVC 2 project that has the Controllers separated into ano开发者_JAVA技巧ther project. I would like to create a View within a parent View.

I have ParentController and ChildController, both inheriting from "Controller." I would like to create a folder called "ChildController" within "ParentController" and add Views from there.

Obviously, this throws a "The Resource could not be found" error.

Do I need to edit the controllers? Is this a routing limitation?

(How) can this be achieved?

By default, views checked in the Views/{ControllerPrefix} folder. Then in the Views/Shared folder.

Your folder needs to match the controller's Prefix, ie:

ChildController

will pull views from

/views/child/

You can also directly reference the view based on it's application path from any controller:

~/views/child/subview.ascx

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but providing custom view search paths is done by writing a custom ViewEngine class.

But having multiple controllers (no matter how they're inherited) should always be a folder per controller in the Views folder.

I guess you're using Html.RenderAction method. Doesn't really matter. Your View folder structure should still be:

/Views
  /Parent
    /Index.aspx
    /Whatever.aspx
  /Child
    /SubView.ascx   <- this one here is a partial view if you use RenderAction()