partial view was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations

Question

I have following controller code: ``` public MyController:Controller { public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } [ChildActionOnly] public ActionResult MyPartialViewAction() { return PartialView("~/Views/Shared/MyCustomFolder/_MyPartialView",PartialViewModel); } } ``` and my Index view has the following code : ``` @HTML.Action("MyPartialViewAction") ``` When I run the Web app I get HttpException with InnerExceptionMessage as : InnerException {"The partial view '~/Views/Shared/MyCustomFolder/_MyPartialView' was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
~~/Views/Shared/MyCustomFolder/_MyPartialView"} System.Exception {System.InvalidOperationException} What I have tried till now : Tried moving `_MyPartialView` from `~/Views/Shared/MyCustomFolder` to `~/Views/Shared/` and `~/Views/MyControllerFolder` but still error exists Tried changing my Index View code to `@HTML.RenderAction()` but no luck. Any inputs on where I'm going…

Accepted Answer

You need to add the .cshtml extension to the view name:

```
return PartialView("~/Views/Shared/MyCustomFolder/_MyPartialView.cshtml",PartialViewModel);
```

partial view was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations

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