Question

I have problem with returning a partial view from a controller with different model than my main View. For example:

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        //myModel - get Some Types
        return View(mymodel);
    }

    public PartialViewResult Categories()
    {
        //my another Model - get different Types

        return PartialView(myanothermodel);
    }

And then in Index View:

@Html.RenderPartial("Categories")

I get an exception saying that it is of the wrong type. It expects first type(mymodel) instead of second type.

Is it possible to return different types for view and its partial view?
Thanks for response.

Answer 1

It looks like you’re trying to render the action, not the view.

Call @Html.Action("Categories").