Display a view from another controller in ASP.NET MVC

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 use:

return View("../Category/NotFound", model);

It was tested in ASP.NET MVC 3, but should also work in ASP.NET MVC 2.

Have you tried `RedirectToAction`?

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.

Yes its possible.
Return a `RedirectToAction()` method like this:

return RedirectToAction("ActionOrViewName", "ControllerName");

With this code you can obtain any controller:

var controller = DependencyResolver.Current.GetService<ControllerB>();
controller.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext(this.Request.RequestContext,
controller);

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" });