C# – Render Partial View from other controller

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Is there a way to render inside my view of controller A a partial view from other controller B?

Edit: I wrote a partial view that is good for only two controllers and I don't want to copy it to their both Views folder.
I want The partial view to be displayed each time the View is rendered not after something happens.

Best Answer

You can share views between controllers by putting them into the Views/Shared folder. Each controller can then render that view by name.
You can render a partial view (which can be shared between controllers as in (1)) within the current view using Html.Partial().
You can use Html.Action() to invoke an action on a different controller and render the results within the current view.
You can use AJAX to load a partial view from a different controller after the page has been rendered.

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Here's what I came up with, and it's working for me. I added the following method(s) to my controller base class. (You can always make these static methods somewhere else that accept a controller as a parameter I suppose)

MVC2 .ascx style

protected string RenderViewToString<T>(string viewPath, T model) {
  ViewData.Model = model;
  using (var writer = new StringWriter()) {
    var view = new WebFormView(ControllerContext, viewPath);
    var vdd = new ViewDataDictionary<T>(model);
    var viewCxt = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, view, vdd,
                                new TempDataDictionary(), writer);
    viewCxt.View.Render(viewCxt, writer);
    return writer.ToString();
  }
}

Razor .cshtml style

public string RenderRazorViewToString(string viewName, object model)
{
  ViewData.Model = model;
  using (var sw = new StringWriter())
  {
    var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext,
                                                             viewName);
    var viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View,
                                 ViewData, TempData, sw);
    viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
    viewResult.ViewEngine.ReleaseView(ControllerContext, viewResult.View);
    return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
  }
}

Edit: added Razor code.

How to import a namespace in Razor View Page

Finally found the answer.

@using MyNamespace

For VB.Net:

@Imports Mynamespace

Take a look at @ravy amiry's answer if you want to include a namespace across the app.

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