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Archive for February, 2009
When to use RenderAction vs RenderPartial with ASP.NET MVC
Feb 21st
At first glance, RenderAction and RenderPartial both do a very similar thing – they load ‘some other content’ into the view being rendered at the place they are called. Personally, I think they should be used for different scenarios so these are my thoughts on where each one should be used and why. First though,
RenderSubAction alternative to RenderAction for Sub-Controllers in MVC
Feb 21st
The ASP.NET MVC Futures assembly contains several RenderAction extension methods for HtmlHelper to allow another action to be rendered at some point within a view. Typically, this allows each controller to handle different responsibilities rather than things being combined into the parent. So, for example, a PersonController is responsible for retrieving and assembling the model