Display a view from another controller in ASP NET MVC

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Is it possible to display a view from another controller   Say for example I have a CategoriesController and a Category NotFound aspx view  While in the CategoriesController  I can easly return View  NotFound     Now say I have a ProductsController and an action and view to add a product  However  this action requires that we have a Category to add the Product to  For example  Products Add  catid 10   If I am not able to find the Category based on catid  I want to show the NotFound view from the Categories controller instead of creating a CategoryNotFound view under the Products controller   Is this possible or am I structuring things in the wrong way  Is there a good way to do this

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You can also call any controller from JavaScript jQuery  Say you have a controller returning 404 or some other usercontrol page  Then  on some action  from your client code  you can call some address that will fire your controller and return the result in HTML format your client code can take this returned result and put it wherever you want in you your page

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Yes  you can  Return an Action like this    return RedirectToAction  View    Name of Controller      An example   return RedirectToAction  Details     id ToString     FullTimeEmployees      This approach will call the GET method   Also you could pass values to action like this   return RedirectToAction  Details     id ToString     FullTimeEmployees   new  id   id ToString    viewtype    extended

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You can use   return View     Category NotFound   model     It was tested in ASP NET MVC 3  but should also work in ASP NET MVC 2

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Yes   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   The shared directory is there specifically to share Views across multiple controllers  Just add your View to the Shared subdirectory and you re good to go   If you do return View    Views Wherever SomeDir MyView aspx   You can return any View you d like

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With this code you can obtain any controller   var controller   DependencyResolver Current GetService lt ControllerB gt     controller ControllerContext   new ControllerContext this Request RequestContext   controller

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Have you tried RedirectToAction

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Yes its possible  Return a RedirectToAction   method like this   return RedirectToAction  ActionOrViewName    ControllerName

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