Clean way to return an empty mvc partial view

Question

In cshtml file, based on a condition, what's the best way to return an empty partialview ?

Right now I have:

@if(Model.Count() > 0)
{
  loooonng partial view block of markup code
}

How can I re-do it to look cleaner closer to this:

@if(Model.Count() == 0)
{
  render an empty partial view
}

  loooonng partial view block of markup code goes here   <- This will obviously get executed only if Model.Count() > 0

Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

I have been using

return Content("");

and is working fine.

Answer 2

Not sure if you still need an answer, but I came across this problem and here's what I did in the view:

@if(Model.Count() == 0)
{
return; // a simple return will stop execution of the rest of the View
}

On a Controller level, I created a new class and returned it in my action:

public class EmptyPartialViewResult : PartialViewResult
{
    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
    {
    }
}