Is it possible to access MVC Views located in another project?

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For including controllers you need to change your route registrations to tell them where to look for the controllers:

routes.MapRoute(name: "Default", url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                namespaces: new[] {"[Namespace of the Project that contains your controllers]"},
                defaults: new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional});

For including views, create custom ViewEngine:

public class CustomViewEngine: RazorViewEngine
{
    public CustomViewEngine()
    {
        MasterLocationFormats = new string[]
        {
            "~/bin/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/bin/Views/{1}/{0}.vbhtml",
            "~/bin/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml",
            "~/bin/Views/Shared/{0}.vbhtml"

        };
        ViewLocationFormats = new string[]
        {
             "~/bin/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml",
             "~/bin/Areas/{2}/Views/{1}/{0}.vbhtml",
             "~/bin/Areas/{2}/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml",
             "~/bin/Areas/{2}/Views/Shared/{0}.vbhtml"
        };
        .
        .
        .
    }
}
protected void Application_Start()
{
    ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new CustomViewEngine());

For more information look at the default implementation of RazorViewEngin.

Here some good articles:

A Custom View Engine with Dynamic View Location

Using controllers from an external assembly in ASP.NET Web API

How to call controllers in external assemblies in an ASP.NET MVC application

How do I implement a custom RazorViewEngine to find views in non-standard locations?

Views in separate assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

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