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copied!<p>Danny is correct. The Templates are found the same way that Partial Views are found.</p> <p>By default the WebFormViewEngine and RazorViewEngine are going to search the following locations for a template.</p> <p>For display templates:</p> <blockquote> <p>~/Views/{controller}/DisplayTemplates ~/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates</p> </blockquote> <p>For editor templates:</p> <blockquote> <p>~/Views/{controller}/EditorTemplates ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates</p> </blockquote> <p>I think the name of the sub-directories (i.e., "DisplayTemplates" and "EditorTemplates") are hard-coded into MVC somewhere (I know it's open source and I could find it, but I'm not going to).</p> <p>I think the easiest way to change the location somewhat is to override the ViewEngine. My custom ViewEngine is pretty complicated at this point, but I suspect you could get away with the following.</p> <p>Let's say you want your templates to be in ~/Views/Templates.</p> <p>Create a class that inherits from the view engine you're using now (probably WebFormViewEngine or RazorViewEngine). Add an empty constructor. It should looks like this:</p> <pre><code>namespace MySite { public class MySiteViewEngine : RazorViewEngine // <<-- or WebFormViewEngine { public MySiteViewEngine() { // We'll put some code here in a later step } } } </code></pre> <p>Now, add the following lines to the Application_Start method of Global.asax.cs:</p> <pre><code>ViewEngines.Engines.Clear(); ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new MySiteViewEngine()); </code></pre> <p>At this point, compile and run your application. Everything should be running exactly like it is running now. You're basically using the same view engine you were using before.</p> <p>But now, we want to add a location to search when looking for PartialViews. This is simply done by adding to the <em>PartialViewLocationFormats</em>. So, now in the constructor of your custom view engine, you want to add to the base class' array like so:</p> <pre><code>base.PartialViewLocationFormats = new string[] { "~/Views/Templates/{0}.cshtml" }.Union(base.PartialViewLocationFormats).ToArray<string>(); </code></pre> <p>A couple of notes about the above:</p> <ul> <li>The entry above will make it so that your view engine looks for the String display template at ~/Views/Templates/DisplayTemplates/String.cshtml.</li> <li>The location format in these view engines includes the file extension, so if you're using Razor/C# use "cshtml", Razor/VB use "vbhtml", WebForms add "aspx" and "ascx".</li> <li>The way I'm doing it above, I'm adding my location format to the top of the list but keeping all the default locations. You might consider removing those.</li> <li>Watch the current formats and you'll see that you will also get a controller in the {1} position in the format, so if you wanted to have a Templates directory underneath every controller you could.</li> <li>Careful, once you get started moving things around with a view engine, it gets addictive. You might find yourself moving everything around.</li> </ul> <p>Good luck.</p>

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