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Is there any unofficial standard naming convention for partial views? I've seen someone suggested prefixing with "_", others postfixing with "Partial", I know the question is subjective, but since there is no official guideline, I'd like to know what the majority here uses for naming their partial views. Perhaps the most voted answer WILL become the standard.
Update: I'm using ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor as the view engine, in previous versions you didn't need a convention because you had the .ascx extension
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Naming Conventions for Name of a Type“ViewModel” is simply added to a “Page”-suffixed name to yield the name of its ViewModel. However, only “Model” is added to a “View”-suffixed name to yield the name of its companion ViewModel.
Views are the general result of a page that results in a display. It's the highest level container except the masterpage. While a partial view is for a small piece of content that may be reused on different pages, or multiple times in a page.
You should use partial views in two primary cases: When you need to reuse a similar "group of components" in multiple locations in a website (e.g. a "login form" might be used in different places in the website).
To create a partial view, right click on the Shared folder -> click Add -> click View.. to open the Add View popup, as shown below. You can create a partial view in any View folder. However, it is recommended to create all your partial views in the Shared folder so that they can be used in multiple views.
If you look at WebMatrix, the convention is to prefix Razor files that are not meant to be served directly with a leading underscore. That includes partials and layout pages. Then if you look at MvcScaffolding, you can see that the default templates generate files using the same naming convention.
Read this for an explanation as to why that convention might be used.
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