ASP.NET MVC - The resource cannot be found

Question

I've renamed some views in my MVC project and then changed the controller to reflect the change but for some reason it still cannot find the view.

My action is as follows:

 // GET: Accounts public ActionResult Index() { return View("Find", db.Accounts.ToList()); }

And as you can see from this screenshot, the view is there where it should be:

Is there something I've missed?

What is the controller called? Have you got any custom routing? — DavidG
– DavidG, Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 0:25
It's in an AccountsController, there's no custom routing and yeah I've rebuilt - if I rename the ActionResult to the same as the view it works, but I thought I didn't need to do that? — Web Develop Wolf
– Web Develop Wolf, Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 0:27
No, that's just telling the action which view to use when rendering. — DavidG
– DavidG, Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 0:31

DavidG · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-18 00:34:13Z

By default in MVC, the routing says you access an action in this format:

http://server/controller/action

Changing the view used doesn't affect the routing at all. So if you want to access the action, you can either use a proper URL:

http://server/accounts/index

This should also work but depends on your routing as Index is often the default action:

http://server/accounts

Alternatively you could add a custom route just for that action.

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