Asp.net MVC - Render a partial View From an Area

Question

I've created an area that will handle our some generic things across all our development products, just as log ins, HTML helpers, etc. Inside the area, I have a partial view that I'm attempting to reference outside of the area. I've registered the area with

public class Routes : AreaRegistration
{
    public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
    {
        context.MapRoute(
            "Common_default",
            "Common/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            new {
                controller = "Account",
                action = "Index",
                id = UrlParameter.Optional
            });
    }

    public override string AreaName
    {
        get { return "MvcCommons"; }
    }
}

And now in the regular project, I'm trying to reference a view in the MvcCommons area...

<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">

<h2>TestGrid</h2>

<% Html.RenderPartial("jQGridTable", ViewData.Model); %>

But I keep getting that the view isn't found. Before, while creating the MVC Commons project, I was getting view errors, but the errors told me that it looked in both the area folders and the default view folders. This time, I'm only getting the default folders. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

I haven't actually had to do this, but at a guess I would assume you should use Html.RenderAction() instead, something like Html.RenderAction("action", "controller", new { area = "Area", model = ViewData.Model }).

model will have to be replaced with the name of the action's parameters, but that should work.

edit this will require a controller and view setup for each action though.