Controller can not find partial view

Question

So I have a controller called myPartiaViewController with the path

Controllers/myPartiaViewController.cs

and I have a partial view, _mypartialView, inside a folder, myPartialView, that is inside another folder, MainView, in the Views folder

Views/MainView/myPartialView/_myPartialView.cshtml

I have a method in my controller

[HttpPost]
[ChildActionOnly]
public ActionResult myPartialView()        
    return PartialView("MainView/myPartialView/_myPartialView.cshtml", model);}
}

For some reason my controller can not resolve the partial view. what going on?

Answer 1

Use return PartialView("~/Views/MainView/PartialView/_myPartialView.cshtml", model);

it's the ~ that does it. Otherwise you'll look for a top-level MainView folder, which is not as intended.