Sunday, August 19, 2012

A very clean article to discuss when to use RenderAction or RenderPartial in MVC3

This post is the best one so far to explain when to use RenderAction and when to use RenderPartial.

RenderAction basically can be a good place holder for some static contents that can be defined in _layout page. However, if the content is driven by main view content, it will be better define it in section area. There is a good tutorial by ScottGu.
Also in the view if you want to get the current action and controller, you can get it from ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller" or "action"]

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