MVC Calling a view from a different controller

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My project structure is like    Controllers ArticlesController cs  Controllers CommentsController cs Views Articles Read aspx   Read aspx takes a parameter say  output   which is the details of the article by id and its comments  passed from ArticlesController cs  Now I want to write then read the comment   write    amp  Read   funct in CommentsController cs  For reading the article with its comments  I want to call Views Articles Read aspx from CommentsController cs by passing output parameter from CommentsController cs  How can I do this   UPDATE  Code Here   public class CommentsController   AppController       public ActionResult write                   some code         commentRepository Add comment           commentRepository Save               works fine till here  Data saved in db         return RedirectToAction  Read   new   article   comment article id                public ActionResult Read int article                   ArticleRepository ar   new ArticleRepository            var output   ar Find article              Now I want to redirect to Articles Read aspx with output parameter          return View  Articles Read   new   article   comment article id              public class ArticlesController   AppController          public ActionResult Read int article                var output   articleRepository Find article              This Displays article data in Articles Read aspx         return View output

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I m not really sure if I got your question right  Maybe something like  public class CommentsController   Controller        HttpPost      public ActionResult WriteComment CommentModel comment                   Do the basic model validation and other stuff         try                       if  ModelState IsValid                                     Insert the model to database like                   db Comments Add comment                    db SaveChanges                         Pass the comment s article id to the read action                  return RedirectToAction  Read    Articles   new  id   comment ArticleID                                    catch   Exception e                          throw e                       Something went wrong         return View comment              public class ArticlesController   Controller          id is the id of the article     public ActionResult Read int id                   Get the article from database by id         var model   db Articles Find id              Return the view         return View model

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To directly answer your question if you want to return a view that belongs to another controller you simply have to specify the name of the view and its folder name   public class CommentsController   Controller       public ActionResult Index                  return View     Articles Index   model              and  public class ArticlesController   Controller       public ActionResult Index                  return View              Also  you re talking about using a read and write method from one controller in another  I think you should directly access those methods through a model rather than calling into another controller as the other controller probably returns html

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You can move you read aspx view to Shared folder  It is standard way in such circumstances

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It is explained pretty well here  Display a view from another controller in ASP NET MVC To quote  Womp  By default  ASP NET MVC checks first in  Views  Controller Dir    but after that  if it doesn t find the view  it checks in  Views Shared  ASP MVC s idea is  quot convention over configuration quot  which means moving the view to the shared folder is the way to go in such cases

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