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How can I determine if current action is a ChildAction or routed main action? Should I check the URL and compare to the action's name? That's not so nice, since it's dependent on routing patterns...
Or should I make two actions of the same name, put a ChildActionOnly on one of them and have separate logic (mainly returning View() or PartialView())? How will the overloads be differentiated?
Okay, from an other perspective: How to make it so, that if it's a ChildAction then return a PartialView, otherwise a full View?
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What is an MVC Child Action. A Child Action in ASP.NET MVC is kind of similar to that of a User Control in ASP.NET web forms. It allows for a controller to execute for a portion of the rendered area of a view, like in Web Forms where you can execute a UserControl for a portion of the rendered area of a page.
Basically a child action is a controller action that you could invoke from the view using the Html.Action helper: @Html.Action("SomeActionName", "SomeController") This action will then execute and render its output at the specified location in the view.
You could use the IsChildAction property:
public ActionResult Index() { if (ControllerContext.IsChildAction) { // The Index action was invoked as child action using // @Html.Action("index") } ... } If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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