Calling another different view from the controller using ASP NET MVC 4

Question

I have a view  Index cshtml  with a submit button  When the submit button is clicked  it calls an action  Action01  within the controller  TestController cs  so at the end of the action I want to return to the caller  Index cshtml  view with a custom view model as a parameter  How do I do this   Results after first attempt using View  ViewName  model    An error is raised  as the action is within the controller Test  so returning  it is searching for  Views Tests Index  and my Index page is in  Views Home Index   The view  Index  or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations  The following locations were searched     Views Test Index aspx   Views Test Index ascx   Views Shared Index aspx   Views Shared Index ascx   Views Test Index cshtml   Views Test Index vbhtml   Views Shared Index cshtml   Views Shared Index vbhtml   Final solution   I have used return View  ViewName   model   and I have changed my directories structure as it was the problem

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You have to specify the name of the custom view and its related model in Controller Action method   public ActionResult About                    return View  NameOfViewYouWantToReturn  Model

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To return a different view  you can specify the name of the view you want to return and model as follows   return View  ViewName   yourModel     if the view is in different folder under Views folder then use below absolute path   return View    Views FolderName ViewName aspx

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You can directly return a different view like   return View  NameOfView   Model     Or you can make a partial view and can return like   return PartialView  PartialViewName   Model

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Also  you can just set the ViewName   return View  ViewName      Full controller example   public ActionResult SomeAction         if  condition                return View  CustomView         else          return View              This works on MVC 5

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public ActionResult Index                                 return View                                public ActionResult Test string Name                                return RedirectToAction  Index                    Return View Directly displays your view but  Redirect ToAction Action is performed

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