Calling @Html.Partial to display a partial view belonging to a different controller
I am developing an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, whose content pages have a common pattern of layout elements. However, because the login page does not follow this layout, I cannot place this layout in \Views\Shared\_Layout.cshtml.
So I would like to add another shared layout, say, \Views\Shared\_Content.cshtml, and call it from the content views... but unfortunately those views belong to different controllers.
Is there any way to invoke @Html.Partial for a view belonging to a different controller?
Answer
That's no problem.
@Html.Partial("../Controller/View", model)
or
@Html.Partial("~/Views/Controller/View.cshtml", model)
Should do the trick.
If you want to pass through the (other) controller, you can use:
@Html.Action("action", "controller", parameters)
or any of the other overloads