Moving project to another directory causes missing view

Question

I created a project with the dotnet cli and everything worked up until the time I wanted to write tests for the app.
I created a src directory and moved the entire web project to the src folder after which I created the test project in a folder called tests.

I added reference to the web app in the test project, the test run successfully but when I run my app with dotnet run I get the following error:

The Views folder is in the src directory and every other files including the *.csproj.

Please find my folder structure below:

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Update:

I see what your problem is now, in launch.json ,change

cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",

to

cwd": "${workspaceFolder}\\src",

This is related to vs code,you need to tell it which folder is the workspace
Your code was working fine on Visual Studio
Also,don't forget to remove

products.Add("Error", null);

Original Post:

Not sure which is your current folder structure but let's take your original example.

If you just move the "Views" folder inside a src folder you can add the following in your Startup.cs file :

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        //..
        services.Configure<RazorViewEngineOptions>(o =>
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < o.ViewLocationFormats.Count; i++)
                o.ViewLocationFormats[i] = "/src" + o.ViewLocationFormats[i];
        });
    }

Now,if you moved other resources too(css,images) you'll have to update any references to them.
I don't see why you should deviate from the convention though,create a new clean project ,with tests and see what's different from you project