Using "..\" in a Layout path doesn't work

[sebastienros]

Repro:
Create a Layout in the parent folder of the view and reference it like this:
Layout = "..\\MyLayout.cshtml";

NB: In Orchard so might affect the behavior.

[Eilon]

Does it work with forward slashes?

BTW what exactly "doesn't work"? Bad file path exception thrown? View not found? Where did it look?

[pranavkm]

I tried this out and seems to works fine. We did fix a bug in preview2 (#6448) where paths returned by ViewLocationExpanders that contain back slashes wouldn't have worked. Perhaps you were hitting this? Let me know if you're still seeing this in preview2 \ RTM bits.

[jtkech]

Just tried with @sebastienros with a <AspNetCoreVersion>2.0.0-*</AspNetCoreVersion>.
We can confirm that Layout = "../_Layout.cshtml;" works.

[pranavkm]

Thanks @jtkech