Render Partial View from other controller

c# asp.net-mvc asp.net-mvc-3 razor partial-views
gdoron is supporting Monica picture gdoron is supporting Monica · Nov 1, 2011 · Viewed 96.1k times · Source

Is there a way to render inside my view of controller A a partial view from other controller B?

Edit: I wrote a partial view that is good for only two controllers and I don't want to copy it to their both Views folder.
I want The partial view to be displayed each time the View is rendered not after something happens.

Answer

tvanfosson picture tvanfosson · Nov 1, 2011
  1. You can share views between controllers by putting them into the Views/Shared folder. Each controller can then render that view by name.
  2. You can render a partial view (which can be shared between controllers as in (1)) within the current view using Html.Partial().
  3. You can use Html.Action() to invoke an action on a different controller and render the results within the current view.
  4. You can use AJAX to load a partial view from a different controller after the page has been rendered.

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