Passing ViewData to PartialView returned from using Html.Action
- by RWGodfrey
I want to embed a partial view in an ASP.NET MVC page by returning it from an action method.
In my base view, I would have:
<%= Html.Action("MyPartialViewAction") %>
My controller would have an action method like:
[ChildActionOnly]
public ActionResult MyPartialViewAction()
{
return PartialView("MyPartialView");
}
I expected the returned partial view (MyPartialView) to have access to the ViewData that was set in the base page's controller action but that doesn't appear to be the case. If I insert the partial view by using the following in my base view it works:
<% Html.RenderPartial("MyPartialView") %>
I don't want to do that though because I want my "MyPartialViewAction" to execute logic to determine WHICH partial view to return.
