I created a custom Razor View engine
Right now when I do:
public class ConfigViewEngine : RazorViewEngine
{
public ConfigViewEngine()
{
var existingViewLocationFormats = new List<string>();
var partialViewLocationFormats = new List<string>();
//Folder Structure: Views\Desktop\Home and Views\Mobile\Home
existingViewLocationFormats.Insert(0,
"~/Views/" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configName"] +
"/Shared/{0}.cshtml");
partialViewLocationFormats.Insert(0,
"~/Views/" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configName"] +
"/Shared/{0}.cshtml");
existingViewLocationFormats.Insert(0,
"~/Views/" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configName"] +
"/{1}/{0}.cshtml");
partialViewLocationFormats.Insert(0,
"~/Views/" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configName"] +
"/{1}/{0}.cshtml");
ViewLocationFormats = existingViewLocationFormats.ToArray();
PartialViewLocationFormats = partialViewLocationFormats.ToArray();
}
}
My _ViewStart.cshtml looks like
ViewEngines.Engines.Clear();
ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new ConfigViewEngine());
Layout = "~/Views/" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configName"] + "/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
I get the following error when I go to /Home/Dashboard
The view 'Dashboard' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/Home/Dashboard.aspx
~/Views/Home/Dashboard.ascx
~/Views/Shared/Dashboard.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Dashboard.ascx
~/Views/Home/Dashboard.cshtml
~/Views/Home/Dashboard.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/Dashboard.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/Dashboard.vbhtml
If I place an empty Dashboard.cshtml
file in /Views/Home/
, it will use that file and then when I refresh, it will serve the correct file from /Views/configName/Home/Dashboard
Anybody know why it's not initializing correctly?
Figured it out. I wasn't supposed to put that code in _ViewStart.cshtml, I was supposed to put it in Global.asax.cs