Question

I am using ASP MVC 4 framework. For example, I have 2 controllers: MainPanelController and CartController.

MainPanel controller defines methods and views for showing base main panel functions. Cart controller for example defines standard cart methods: RemoveFromCart, ClearCart, AddItemToCart etc.

Where should I define ShowCartItems method, if I want to display cart items list in main panel index page? I have two choises:

• in CartController as PartialViewResult and render it in Index View of
  MainPanel controller
• completely define it in MainPanelController

I think showing cart items is CartController’s task. Or maybe should I define ShowCartItems view in MainPanelController?

Answer 1

Maybe what your are looking for is RenderAction method, which provides you a way to output an action from other controller:

    @{
Html.RenderAction("ShowCartItems","CartController");
}