I've built an RSS view that I would like to be able to render from a number of different controllers that provide different data.  By default RenderView() looks in the ~/Views/[ControllerName] folder for the view.  I can't figure out how to render this view from within different controllers.  I've heard that you are supposed to be able to override the default behavior for RenderView, but I'm not sure how to do that or if it is the right direction.  Any tips?  Thanks.

Sounds like you want to make a shared view, as a user control. Then you can use the MvcToolkit to render the shared view, like so: 

<%=Html.RenderUserControl("~/Views/Shared/RSS.ascx", RssData) %>

Personally, I build separate RSS views for each controller... I usually end up tweaking them a bit so they're each somewhat different anyway. I don't really like the method I showed you above, it seems a bit like a hack. I mean, you'd have to create the RSS view for each controller anyway, then make a call to the RenderUserControl to render the shared view. Perhaps there will be a better, more baked in, method of doing this in the future.

 If you put your view in the Shared folder you can use

RenderView( "RSS", rssData );

from within your controller. 

Thanks tgmdbm.  I thought I had already tried that, but I did it again and it works great!

tgmdbm:

 If you put your view in the Shared folder you can use

RenderView( "RSS", rssData );

from within your controller. 

lol... I'd like to apologize to the original author. My reply was totally out of whack. Thanks, tgmdbm. 

ChadThiele, I was actually considering something like you mentioned, and hoping that I wouldn't have to resort to it :)