Question

I have a very typical situation in any application, where i have the following functionality:

• create new record
• edit existing record
• so other irrelevant actions

IMO, creating and editing should be served by the same view, but different actions. But it appears that I have to have the action name match the view name….would you use partial views for this? I would rather not complicate this scenario – which is very simple and appears in virtually every web app.

Answer 1

Action can return a view with a diferent name this way:

public ActionResult OneName()
{
    return View("OtherName");
}

If you don’t specify the view name (View(“”) then the view will be the view with the action name