The view or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations

user2564537 picture user2564537 · Aug 16, 2013 · Viewed 172.1k times · Source

Error like:The view 'LoginRegister' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:

~/Views/MyAccount/LoginRegister.aspx

~/Views/MyAccount/LoginRegister.ascx

~/Views/Shared/LoginRegister.aspx

~/Views/Shared/LoginRegister.ascx

~/Views/MyAccount/LoginRegister.cshtml

~/Views/MyAccount/LoginRegister.vbhtml

~/Views/Shared/LoginRegister.cshtml

~/Views/Shared/LoginRegister.vbhtml

Actually my page view page is ~/Views/home/LoginRegister.cshtml so what i do

and my RouteConfig is

 public class RouteConfig
    {

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "MyAccount", action = "LoginRegister", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }
    }

Answer

Nigrimmist picture Nigrimmist · Jul 6, 2015

Be careful if your model type is String because the second parameter of View(string, string) is masterName, not model. You may need to call the overload with object(model) as the second paramater:

Not correct :

protected ActionResult ShowMessageResult(string msg)
{
    return View("Message",msg);
}

Correct :

protected ActionResult ShowMessageResult(string msg)
{
    return View("Message",(object)msg);
}

OR (provided by bradlis7):

protected ActionResult ShowMessageResult(string msg)
{
    return View("Message",model:msg);
}