Razor view engine - How can I add Partial Views

Question

Hello, I was wondering what, if it is possible, is the best way to render a partial using the new razor view engine. I understand this is something that wasn't finished completely by the time

Right now I am using RenderPage to render the user control:

@RenderPage("~/Views/Shared/LocaleUserControl.cshtml",ViewData.Model)

The page calling RenderPage uses a layout (master) page with three sections defined: TitleContent, HeadContent and Maincontent. When I attempt to render my locale control from this page it appears that these sections are also required - they should only be required in the calling page and are present. I receive the following message, regardless of whether or not I include the sections in my partial view (obviously I dont want to include these sections but it seemed like an interesting debugging point...).

The following sections have been defined but have not been rendered on the layout page '~/Views/Shared/LocaleUserControl.cshtml': TitleContent; HeadContent; MainContent

My partial view is as follows (adapted from the following link):

@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage<LocaleBaseModel>
@using System.Web.UI;

<p>
     @Html.LabelFor(model => Model.CountryName)
    <br />
    @Html.DropDownListFor(model => Model.CountryName,null, string.Empty, new { @class = "text", accesskey="u"})
</p>
<p>
     @Html.LabelFor(model => Model.StateProvince)
    <br />
     @Html.DropDownListFor(model => Model.StateProvince, null, string.Empty, new { @class = "text", accesskey="t" })
</p>


<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        var countries = $("#CountryName");
        var statesprovinces = $("#StateProvince");
        countries.change(function () {
            statesprovinces.find('option').remove();
            var url = '@Url.Action("GetStatesProvinces", "Base")';
            $.getJSON(url, { countryId: countries.val() }, function (data) {
                $(data).each(function () {
                    $("<option value=" + this.ID + ">" + this.Name + "</option>").appendTo(statesprovinces);
                });
            });
        });
    });
</script>

I'd appreciate any feedback or input anyone out there has, Thanks

JP

Answer 1

You partial looks much like an editor template so you could include it as such (assuming of course that your partial is placed in the ~/views/controllername/EditorTemplates subfolder):

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.SomePropertyOfTypeLocaleBaseModel)

Or if this is not the case simply:

@Html.Partial("nameOfPartial", Model)