I'm working on setting up a shared content (navigation) for an asp.net MVC layout page.
Here is my partial view "_LayoutPartial.cshtml" with code to pull navigation data from a model.
@model MyApp.Models.ViewModel.LayoutViewModel
<p>
@foreach (var item in Model.navHeader)
{
//Test dump of navigation data
@Html.Encode(item.Name);
@Html.Encode(item.URL);
}
</p>
Here is how the code for my controller "LayoutController.cs" looks like.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using MyApp.Models.ViewModel;
namespace MyApp.Controllers
{
public class LayoutController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /Layout/
LayoutViewModel layout = new LayoutViewModel();
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View(layout);
}
}
}
Here is the code for the "_Layout.cshtml" page. I'm attempting to call the partial view here using Html.RenderAction(Action,Controller) method.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>
@{Html.RenderAction("Index","Layout");}
</p>
@RenderBody()
</body>
</html>
When the layout page executes the @{Html.RenderAction("Index","Layout");} line, it throws out an error message "Error executing child request for handler 'System.Web.Mvc.HttpHandlerUtil+ServerExecuteHttpHandlerAsyncWrapper'."
What am I missing friends? How can I call a partial view in a layout page?
Thank you all in advance!