Cannot specify controller name in RenderPartial

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Cannot specify controller name in RenderPartial

In Brad Wilson's post

http://webanonymizer.info/browse.php?b=5&u=Oi8vYnJhZHdpbHNvbi50eXBlcGFkLmNvbS9ibG9nLzIwMDgvMDgvcGFydGlhbC1yZW5kZXJpLmh0bWw%3D

he listed all the overloaded method for Html.RenderPartial(), but none takes the controller name as parameter.

For my application, I would like to specify the controller name when calling RenderPartial. Is there any way to get around this problem other than moving my view to /Shared folder?

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The Render methods are intended to render Views. The idea is that the Controller deals with the request, conjures up a Model and hands that Model off to the View. At that point, the Controller's work is done.

I think it is an indication of a design flaw if the View needs to know anything about the Controller. Can you share more about what it is that you are trying to accomplish?

I often find that when dealing with well-designed frameworks (such as the MVC framework), if it feels like the framework is fighting you, you are probably going about the task in the wrong way. This has happened to me a lot, and stepping back and asking myself what it is that I'm really trying to accomplish often leads to new insights.

But if you really must, you can always put the Controller name in the ViewData...

Mark Seemann 2009-09-11 07:20:17

I am doing the customer-review module for an e-commerce application. The goal is to enable a seller to see reviews regarding to his/her products. Now, I have a master page Seller.master contains a partial view "SellerMenu". My scenario is follows:1. A request for viewing reviews is directed to ReviewController which holds the ReviewRepository.2. ReviewController handles the request, and returns a View which is under Views/Review folder.3. Because this view is for sellers, I want to apply the Seller.Master as well, and of course I got an exception from the browser.

Wei Ma 2009-09-11 08:24:38

My approach could be totally off. Can you tell me what is wrong from the design point of view?

Wei Ma 2009-09-11 08:27:09

When you return a View from the Controller, there's an overload to the Controller.View method that allows you specify the name of a master page. Isn't that what you need, then?

Mark Seemann 2009-09-11 09:12:03

Specifying the name of master page is not my problem. My problem is not able to render the partial view from a different View folder. Any way, as you said, it's more likely a problem in my design. Maybe I should handle the request with SellerController instead.

Wei Ma 2009-09-11 09:28:43

So you are saying that the problem is that in the context of your View, the user control cannot be found because it is contained in a different folder?

Mark Seemann 2009-09-11 10:05:48

Yes, that's the problem.

Wei Ma 2009-09-11 10:23:27

Well, if you use the same user control from different Controllers/routes, it would make sense to put it in the Shared folder.

Mark Seemann 2009-09-11 10:58:15

You could consider using Html.RenderAction in ASP.NET MVC Futures.

Alexander Prokofyev 2009-09-11 09:26:21

RenderAction can certainly do what I want here. However, I feel it "poisoned" the Master page. Not being able to achieve my goal without using shortcuts might be the "smell" of my design.

Wei Ma 2009-09-11 09:32:37

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