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The View() method can load Partial Views.
Is the difference between View() and PartialView() is that View() can load views and partial views and PartialView() can only load partial views?
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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.
View can basically contains a complete markup which may contain a master view(or master page) with all the design(s) etc. whereas Partial view is only a portion of page or a small markup which don't have master page. It is basically used as user control in mvc and it can be used at more than one views.
A partial view is a Razor markup file ( . cshtml ) without an @page directive that renders HTML output within another markup file's rendered output. The term partial view is used when developing either an MVC app, where markup files are called views, or a Razor Pages app, where markup files are called pages.
The primary difference between the two methods is that Partial generates the HTML from the View and returns it to the View to be incorporated into the page. RenderPartial, on the other hand, doesn't return anything and, instead, adds its HTML directly to the Response object's output.
It's up to a view engine to decide if they want to treat partial views different from regular views.
For example, in the WebFormViewEngine there is no difference.
In the new ASP.NET MVC 3 RazorViewEngine there are some differences. Only regular views will have the "_viewstart.cshtml" pages run because they are meant for things such as setting up layout pages.
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I think the biggest difference is about the use of the _Layout page:
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