Load views from location outside the mvc website

Question

I'm trying to load an MVC view form a folder outside the location of the app.

My app is in C:\dev\myproject\ and the view file i'm trying to load is located in D:\viewsfolder\something is it possible to do that?

I tried passing an absolute path to the return View() method but that didn't work.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '13 at 16:24

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This is not supported by standard ASP.NET MVC. You may take a look at the RazorEngine plugin which allows you to render a Razor view from a string.

You haven't really explained why you need to do that by the way. Maybe there's a better approach to your particular problem.

answered Jun 16 '13 at 16:24

Darin Dimitrov

I need this because i need my views in a common location between different web servers. and +1 for RazorEngine, I forgot about it. – Nikola Sivkov Jun 16 '13 at 16:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 14:40

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The best way to do this is to have your Views Precompiled into a dll which can be used across multiple locations with only one code base.

This can be done using the Razor Generator Plugin which you can find here:

answered Jun 19 '13 at 14:40

AntSpiteri

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