Question

I have a partial view with a controller with outputCache on as I need to cache this element.

Then I need to render this PartialView in every page, but first I need to do some string replacement.

So my question is, howdo I get a Partial View in a controller so I can manipulate the content and do some string replacement before returning it to the View?

Thanks

Answer 1

No, don’t do this. Your controller should not render your View, that’s the job of the templating engine.

Pass the “replacement” values as a model to your PartialView.

public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
  SomeModelmodel = new SomeModel(); // your model
  return PartialView(model); // partial view with your model
}

And the Partial View:

@model SomeModel

<div>Replace your values with @Model.Value instead of String.Replace().</div>