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noobiehacker
noobiehacker

Reputation: 1109

Razor engine can not find the Index.cshtml page when it is clearly there

I have this ASP.NET webapi program that was running smoothly with the help page working as well.

Suddendly something happened and the Help Page won't load anymore.

The view 'Index' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Help/Index.aspx
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Help/Index.ascx
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Shared/Index.aspx
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Shared/Index.ascx
~/Views/Help/Index.aspx
~/Views/Help/Index.ascx
~/Views/Shared/Index.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Index.ascx
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Help/Index.cshtml
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Help/Index.vbhtml
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Shared/Index.cshtml
~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Shared/Index.vbhtml
~/Views/Help/Index.cshtml
~/Views/Help/Index.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/Index.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/Index.vbhtml



Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The view 'Index' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewBag.DocumentationProvider = Configuration.Services.GetDocumentationProvider();
        return View( Configuration.Services.GetApiExplorer().ApiDescriptions);
    }

  public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
            WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
            FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
            BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
        }
    }

The correct file is clearly there inside "~/Areas/HelpPage/Views/Help/Index.cshtml" and I have registered all Areas following the WebAPI tutorial. The view engine just can't find it for some unknown reason, help??

EDIT:

Ok I sort of figured something out. When I right click ActionResult and click go to View, it gives me an error and go to nothing.

So , I right click ActionResult and ADDED a view, it creats a new view in ~/Views/Help/Index.cshtml

So someway that Action is not pointing to the correct View page, and I have no idea how to fix that.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4965

Answers (2)

noobiehacker
noobiehacker

Reputation: 1109

I found the Error, The folder Areas, was accidentally put into a wrong directory when it should be in the root directory

Upvotes: 2

Amila
Amila

Reputation: 3816

it's because you have a HelpController in both root and in HelpPage Area and the view engine can't figure out which one to show.

Please open your RouteConfig.cs file under AppStart and add the namespace of the root controller class as follows to the default route config

routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { 
                controller = "Home", 
                action = "Index", 
                id = UrlParameter.Optional 
            },
            namespaces: new[] { "yourrootcontrollernamespace" }
        );

checkout this youtube video

Upvotes: 0

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