Render partial from different folder (not shared)

Just include the path to the view, with the file extension.

Razor:

@Html.Partial("~/Views/AnotherFolder/Messages.cshtml", ViewData.Model.Successes)

ASP.NET engine:

<% Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/AnotherFolder/Messages.ascx", ViewData.Model.Successes); %>

If that isn't your issue, could you please include your code that used to work with the RenderUserControl?

For readers using ASP.NET Core 2.1 or later and wanting to use Partial Tag Helper syntax, try this:

<partial name="~/Views/Folder/_PartialName.cshtml" />

The tilde (~) is optional.

The information at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/partial?view=aspnetcore-3.1#partial-tag-helper is helpful too.

The VirtualPathProviderViewEngine, on which the WebFormsViewEngine is based, is supposed to support the "~" and "/" characters at the front of the path so your examples above should work.

I noticed your examples use the path "~/Account/myPartial.ascx", but you mentioned that your user control is in the Views/Account folder. Have you tried

<%Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/Account/myPartial.ascx");%>

or is that just a typo in your question?

you should try this

~/Views/Shared/parts/UMFview.ascx

place the ~/Views/ before your code

Create a Custom View Engine and have a method that returns a ViewEngineResult In this example you just overwrite the _options.ViewLocationFormats and add your folder directory :

public ViewEngineResult FindView(ActionContext context, string viewName, bool isMainPage)
        {
            var controllerName = context.GetNormalizedRouteValue(CONTROLLER_KEY);
            var areaName = context.GetNormalizedRouteValue(AREA_KEY);

            var checkedLocations = new List<string>();
            foreach (var location in _options.ViewLocationFormats)
            {
                var view = string.Format(location, viewName, controllerName);
                if (File.Exists(view))
                {
                    return ViewEngineResult.Found("Default", new View(view, _ViewRendering));
                }
                checkedLocations.Add(view);
            }

            return ViewEngineResult.NotFound(viewName, checkedLocations);
        }

Example: https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/pugzor