Can I Render @Section within @Using.BegingForm()?

Question

I'm trying to render a custom section within a form in VB.NET MVC3? the section is in the master layout, and is defaulted - but id like to create a custom one when in a particular view

when i try

@Using Html.BeginForm()
..my markup
   @Section footerMenu
      ..custom footer markup
   End Section
End Using

EDIT: The Section is delcared in my _Layout.vbhtml

<div id="footer">      
    @If (IsSectionDefined("footerMenu")) Then
        @RenderSection("footerMenu")    
    Else
    ...default markup    
    End If
</div>

I get this error:

Unexpected "Section" keyword after "@" character. Once inside code, you do not need to prefix constructs like "Section" with "@".

Of course removing the "@" causes another error:

Compiler Error Message: BC30451: 'Section' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.

Is this possible to do?

Answer 1

You define section elsewhere and render them in your form. What you're doing here is defining section within the form which is causing the error.

And you need to create a custom one (to keep things simple basically)

So what you need is something like this:

@Using Html.BeginForm()
..my markup
   @RenderSection("footerMenuCustom") 
End Using

Elsewhere (can be a partial view)

@Section footerMenuCustom 
... Markup...
End Section

Answer 2

In your Layout page, Specify the the isRequired value is false . So that it will not throw an error even if you dont provide the content from some of the detail page

@RenderSection("footerMenu",false)