How to render partial view in asp.net mvc 2 using Controller and Action?

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  •  18-09-2019
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Question 

<body>
<div id="header">
<div class="title">SPORTS STORE</div>
</div>
<div id="categories">
<% Html.RenderAction("Menu", "Nav"); %>
</div>
<div id="content">
<asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server" />
</div>
</body>

This is a sample code from Steven Sandersons' book "Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework."

This code works with MVC V1 and MvcContrib. What it does, it renders a "Menu()" view of "Nav : Controller". Since ASP.NET MVC V2 includes the Partial() and RenderPartial() functionality, I tried to implement it, but this code doesn't work. I tried to modify it in several ways, but it seems there's no overload function that renders partial views, taking as parameters: 1) Controller name 2) View name

I'm sure I'm not the first person who is implementing RenderAction() in this way, so, there must be a workaround. Please help.

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Solution

I found the problem. I always remove {controller}/{action} route and customize all my routes with lowercase REST like URLs. But for Html.RenderAction it is necessary to have such general route. I added that general route to the end of my routes list and it worked. – Mahdi Feb 22 at 14:42

Although i still don't understand, how EXACTLY this works, why is suck route nessesary, and what are route's constraints. Maybe i will do some research later.

OTHER TIPS

RenderAction is in MVC2 (docs here). It sounds like you've changed your code to use RenderPartial instead which is completely different. Change it back to use RenderAction and you should be ok. If you don't have it in your version, perhaps you need to update to the latest beta?

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