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sagesky36
sagesky36

Reputation: 4692

Partial View and Parent View

Can a Partial View and Parent View have two different View Models?

For instance, a partial view may have a dropdownlist specific to that model and a parent view may have another model for some other entities.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1099

Answers (2)

Kyle Gobel
Kyle Gobel

Reputation: 5750

Yes, the partial and parent views can have two different view models.

The partial view has to get it's viewModel from somewhere though, so this could either be just creating it straight from the view

Parent View

@{
    var partialViewModel = new SomeOtherModel()
        {
            PartialName = Model.Name, 
            SomeProperty = SomeOtherVariable
        };
    Html.Partial("_MyPartialView", partialViewModel);
 }

Or a more common method is the Partial ViewModel is a property of the parent ViewModel

@Html.Partial("_MyPartialView", Model.PartialViewModel)

There are other ways too, but these are fairly common ones you see.

Upvotes: 4

Manikandan Sigamani
Manikandan Sigamani

Reputation: 1984

If you call Partial view from the Parent view, the viewModel will be in a way subset of the ViewModel of the parent. You can have different ViewModels for Parent and Partial views.

Upvotes: 1

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