Question

I would like to display the information about user’s registration state. It should be displayed on every view, but i consider, that writting this code for about 20 times is a bad idea. By the way, this is the code, it works, i guarantee that:

View/RegistrationInfo:

<table width="95%" border="0" cols="2">
  <tr>
    <td width="50%" height="124"><h2><strong>Simple Blog </strong></h2></td>
    <td width="50%" height="124">

    @if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
    {
        using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account"))
        {
        <table width="95%" height="86" border="0">
                    <tr>
                        <td width="50%" valign="middle">Hello, @System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name</td>
                        <td width="50%" valign="middle" align = "right"><input type="submit" value="Exit" /></td>
                    </tr>
        </table>
        }
    }
    else
    {
            using (Html.BeginForm("LogIn", "Home"))
            {
                <table width="95%" height="86" border="0">
                    <tr>
                        <td width="45%" valign="bottom">Login:</td>
                        <td width="45%" valign="bottom">Password:</td>
                        <td width="10%"></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td width="45%">
                            <p>
                                <input type="text" name="login" />
                            </p>
                        </td>
                        <td width="45%">
                            <p>
                                <input type="password" name="password" />
                            </p>
                        </td>
                        <td width="10%" align="left"> 
                            <input type="submit" value="Enter" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td width="45%" valign="top">
                            @Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register", "Account")
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            }

        }

     </td>
  </tr>
</table>

<hr align="left" width="100%" size="2" />

As you can see, this view doesn’t require to be strongly typed… and i don’t know, should I modify any controllers (because, all information is stored in HTML Context), and how. I tried to call

@Html.RenderAction("RegistrationInfo", "Home");

or
@Html.RenderPartial(“RegistrationInfo”, “Home”);

and every time i receive compile error with message about invalid parametres

Answer 1

The following should work:

@Html.Partial("~/Views/Home/RegistrationInfo.cshtml")

Or if you are inside a view of the Home controller simply:

@Html.Partial("RegistrationInfo")

Or if you put this partial in ~/Views/Shared/RegistrationInfo.cshtml you will be able to reference with the shorthand syntax.