RenderPartial control in same view folder

Question

I have a file in my view folder Users called UserViewControl.cshtml.

My code in the actual view (Users.cshtml) is:

@Html.RenderPartial("RegisterViewControl")

Error:The best overloaded method match for 'System.Web.WebPages.WebPageExecutingBase.Write(System.Web.WebPages.HelperResult)' has some invalid arguments

I do not want to type the path fully like this as the whole view folders might move in the future:

@Html.RenderPartial("~/Views/Users/RegisterViewControl.cshtml")

Code in RegisterViewControl.cshtml:

@model SampleMVC.Web.ViewModels.RegisterModel

@using (Html.BeginForm("Register", "Auth", FormMethod.Post, new { Id = "ERForm" }))
{
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name)        
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Email)            
    @Html.PasswordFor(model => model.Password)          
}

This is a form that will be submitted by ajax, but I want all the validation from the viewmodel.

Answer 1

It should be like this:

@{Html.RenderPartial("RegisterViewControl");}

And that's because the RenderPartial extension method doesn't return anything. It writes directly to the output. In aspx you use it like this:

<% Html.RenderPartial("RegisterViewControl"); %>

instead of:

<%= Html.RenderPartial("RegisterViewControl") %>

So the same rules apply for razor.