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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:48:44+00:00

I’m starting to develop a new ASP.NET MVC application, and I’d like to make

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I’m starting to develop a new ASP.NET MVC application, and I’d like to make sure that my understanding about the way of developing applications under MVC pattern is correct.

Question 1: Suppose that I have some main views (MainView1, MainView2, …) with some partial views in it (PartialView1, PartialView2, PartialView3, …). From what I have understood about MVC, I should define a Model for each view. e.g. I have to define PartialModel, PartialModel2, … and also define my main models which are containers of the partial models which have been used in them: 

public class MainModel1
{
    public PartialModel1 Partial1 {get;set}        
    public PartialModel2 Partial2 {get;set}
    public PartialModel3 Partial3 {get;set}
}

This way when I want to redirect to MainView, I can initialize the models used in that view by using this Model. Is my understanding of MVC correct? Or should communication between Views and Models be in another form in MVC?

Question 2: If the above is correct, Then suppose I have a partial view in some of my main view pages. This partial view has a submit button which calls an action method. This action method should somehow return the main page’s view with the right viewmodels for views. Is there any recommendation about how to get/set viewmodels of other views in a partial view’s action?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You understanding is correct. Each view (no matter whether it is main or partial) should have a corresponding view model (unless in the very rare case where this view contains only static html of course). And following this logic a main view that has to render other partial views will have a view model which itself will have reference (maybe as properties) to view models that are required by those partial views.

    There is another technique which is using the Html.Action helper. In this case the partial is rendered through another controller/action than the main one. So you don’t need to reference the partial view model in the main view model. They will be completely distinct. Take a look at the following blog post to learn more about Html.Action.

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