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Asked: 2026-05-14T19:22:18+00:00

I have been developing in classic ASP for about 2.5 years and I am

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I have been developing in classic ASP for about 2.5 years and I am trying to update my skill set to include ASP.NET MVC.

What is the MVC way of executing SSIs? IE: How can I include a database drawn navigation list in a sidebar? I have been looking into partial views, but they seem to get their content from the controller. As far as I can tell this means that I would need to write each controller to pass the navigation list.

Am I thinking along the right lines?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have two options that are similar to SSI

    1. Use either RenderAction or Action (explanation of the difference between the two)
    2. If you’re using MVC2 there’s also DisplayFor helper method which would allow you to define a custom display template for a particular object.

    In your case Option 1 is probably the better one since you probably don’t want to contain the items for the menu in your view model/view data.

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