ASP .NET MVC VirtualPathProvider

Question

I am writing a VirtualPathProvider to dynamically load my MVC views, which are located in a different directory. I successfully intercept the call before MVC (in FileExists), but in my VirtualPathProvider, I get the raw, pre-routed url like:

~/Apps/Administration/Account/LogOn

Personally, I know that MVC will look for

~/Apps/Administration/Views/Account/LogOn.aspx

and that I should be reading the file contents from

D:\SomeOtherNonWebRootDirectory\Apps\Administration\Views\Account\LogOn.aspx

but I'd rather not hard code the logic to "add the directory named Views and add aspx to the end".

Where is this logic stored and how can I get it into my virtual path provider?

Thanks. Sorry if I'm not being clear.

Answer 1

The answer was that MVC was not finding my controller properly. If MVC does in fact find your controller properly, there should be two requests processed by the VirtualPathProvider:

1. An initial request with the acutal url requested (ie. http://.../Account/LogOn).

2. A subsequent FileExists check for http://.../Views/Account/LogOn.aspx, after the request in 1. returns false calling FileExists. This actually retuns the aspx content.