The view Index or its master was not found

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The view  Index  or its master was not found  The following locations were searched    Views ControllerName Index aspx   Views ControllerName Index ascx   Views Shared Index aspx   Views Shared Index ascx   I got this error when using ASP Net mvc area  The area controller action are invoked  but it seems to look for the view in the  base  project views instead of in the area views folder

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Global asax file contain the URL Route  Default URL route like this     controller   action   id     So Try this   1  Right click your controller method as below   Example  let say we call Index   method Right click on it    2  Click Add View   and give appropriate name In this example name should be Index     Then it will add correct View by creating with relevant folder structure

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Check the generated code at MyAreaAreaRegistration cs and make sure that the controller parameter is set to your default controller  otherwise the controller will be called bot for some reason ASP NET MVC won t search for the views at the area folder  public override void RegisterArea AreaRegistrationContext context                context MapRoute               SomeArea default                SomeArea  controller   action   id                new   controller    SomeController   action    Index   id   UrlParameter Optional

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This error was raised because your Controller method name is not same as the View s name   If you right click on your controller method and select Go To View  Ctrl M Ctrl G   it will either open a View  success  or complain that it couldn t find one  what you re seeing     Corresponding Controllers and View folders name have the same names  Corresponding Controller methods  amp  Views pages should same have the same names  If your method name is different than view name  return view  viewName   in the method

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right click in index   method from your controller then click on goto view    if this action open index cshtml   Your problem is the  IIS pool is  not have  permission  to access the physical     path of the view   you can  test it by giving permission  for example  - go to c  inetpub wwwroot yourweb then  right click on yourweb folder -  property - security and add  group name everyone and  allow full control to your site    hope this fix your problem

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You most likely did not create your own view engine  The default view engine looks for the views in   Views  Controller   and   Views Shared    You need to create your own view engine to make sure the views are searched in area views folder   Take a look this post by Phil Haack

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I added viewlocationformat to RazorViewEngine and worked for me  ViewLocationFormats   new                  quot   Views  1   0  cshtml quot                quot   Views Shared  0  cshtml quot                quot   Areas Admin Views  1   0  cshtml quot                quot   Areas Admin Views Shared  0  cshtml quot

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Add the following code in the Application Start   method inside your project   ViewEngines Engines Add new RazorViewEngine

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It  s still a problem on the Final release    when you create the Area from context menu Add Area  visual studio dont put the Controller inside de last argument of the MapRoute method  You need to take care of it  and in my case  I have to put it manually every time I create a new Area

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You can get this error even with all the correct MapRoutes in your area registration  Try adding this line to your controller action   If Not ControllerContext RouteData DataTokens ContainsKey  area   Then     ControllerContext RouteData DataTokens Add  area    MyAreaName   End If

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If You can get this error even with all the correct MapRoutes in your area registration and all other basic configurations are fine   This is the situation   I have used below mentioned code from Jquery file to post back data and then load a view from controller action method     post   Customers ReturnRetailOnlySales    petKey    lt    Model PetKey   gt         Above jQuery code I didn t mentioned success callback function  What was happened there is after finishing a post back scenario on action method  without routing to my expected view it came back to Jquery side and gave view not found error as above   Then I gave a solution like below and its working without any problem      post   Customers ReturnRetailOnlySales    petKey    lt    Model PetKey   gt           function  data     var url   Sys Url route  PetDetail     action   ReturnRetailOnlySalesItems   controller   Customers  petKey    lt    Model PetKey   gt       window location   url          Note  I sent my request inside the success callback function to my expected views action method Then view engine found a relevant area s view file and load correctly

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The problem was that I used MvcRoute MappUrl from MvcContrib to route the context Routes   It seems that MvcContrib routing mapper was uncomfortable with area routing

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Where this error only occurs when deployed to a web server then the issue could be because the views are not being deployed correctly   An example of how this can happen is if the build action for the views is set to None rather than Content   A way to check that the views are deployed correctly is to navigate to the physical path for the site on the web server and confirm that the views are present

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I got the same problem in here  and guess what     looking at the csproj s xml  structure  I noticed the Content node  inside ItemGroup node  was as  none     not sure why but that was the reason I was getting the same error  just edited that to  Content  as the others  and it s working   Hope that helps

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What you need to do is set a token to your area name   for instance   context MapRoute           SomeArea default            SomeArea  controller   action   id            new   controller    SomeController   action    Index   id   UrlParameter Optional         DataTokens Add  area    YOURAREANAME

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This error can also surface if your MSI installer failed to actually deploy the file   In my case this happened because I converted the  aspx files to  cshtml files and visual studio thought these were brand new files and set the build action to none instead of content

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I have had this problem too  I noticed that I missed to include the view page inside the folder that s name is same with the controller   Controller  adminController View- Admin- view1 cshtml   It was View- view1 cshtml  there was no folder  Admin

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I had this problem today with a simple out of the box VS 2013 MVC 5 project deployed manually to my local instance of IIS on Windows 8     It turned out that the App Pool being used did not have the proper access to the application  folders  etc      After resetting my App Pool identity  it worked fine

[asp.net-mvc] The view 'Index' or its master was not found.

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