Loading menu from a partial view in MVC

Question

I am trying to seperate the menu from _Layout.cshtml but I am having difficulties.

My files are located like below.

Views/Home/Index
Views/Shared/_Layout
Views/Shared/_Menu

In _Layout.cshtml file, I have the code below...

@Html.Partial("_Menu")

Menu action is located in HomeController, and it looks like below

public ActionResult Menu()
{
    MenuModel menu = new MenuModel();
    return PartialView("_Menu", menu);
}

_Menu has the code below as first line

@model DomainModel.MenuModel

When I run the project on VS, everything looks perfect but I doesnt call Menu() action in HomeController. It somehow finds _Menu and displays it perfectly. But I dont understand why it doesnt call Menu() action?

Ahmed · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-14 13:20:23Z

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@Html.Partial("_Menu") will just render HTML view, nothing to do with controller. If you want to call a controller use @{ Html.RenderAction("Menu", "Home"); }

edited Nov 14, 2016 at 13:20

answered Nov 14, 2016 at 13:11

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Arif YILMAZ Over a year ago

Hi, It gives an error "Cannot implicitly convert type void to object".

Ahmed Over a year ago

@ayilmaz just format use this @{ Html.RenderAction("Menu", "Home"); }

Arif YILMAZ Over a year ago

well, it gives this error "A public action method '_Menu' was not found on controller 'HomeController'"

Ahmed Over a year ago

@ayilmaz @{ Html.RenderAction("Menu", "Home"); }

Arif YILMAZ Over a year ago

Perfect, thanks a lot. so @{ Html.RenderAction("Menu", "Home"); } calls the action. And action return _Menu, I guess

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:24:44Z

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Actions are cally by request. Therefore you have to send a request e.g. via Ajax to YourController/YourAction or type the url in the browser.

@Html.Partial() simply renders the view with the given data.

To render a view by calling a action please refer to Ahmends answer, https://stackoverflow.com/a/40589584/3936440.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:24

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