Comments on: First impressions of RenderAction in MVC Preview 4

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:26:34 +0000

So in CodeCampServer it would be like this? (I do like the underscore naming convention for partials..)

public ActionResult List(string conferenceKey, bool partial, SponsorLevel? level)
{
Conference conference = _conferenceRepository.GetConferenceByKey(conferenceKey);
Sponsor[] sponsors = level.HasValue ? conference.GetSponsors(level.Value) : conference.GetSponsors();
ViewData.Add(sponsors);
if (partial) return View(“_sponsors”);
return View();
}

By: Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:08:01 +0000

Why separate components from regular controllers? It seems like what you need to do is call an action but render a specialized partial view… very similar to the ones we use when doing ajax calls.

Why not:

<% Html.RenderAction(c=>c.List(true /*partial */)); %>

then your action can look like this:

public ActionResult List(bool partial)
{
var sponsors = // load sponsors
if(partial)
return View(“_sponsors”, sponsors);

ViewData["sponsors"] = sponsors;
return View();
}

By: Zuhaib | ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Released

Zuhaib | ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Released — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:58:46 +0000

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