Question

OK, I’m pretty sure I know the answer to this but just in case.

I know I can pass in a composite class to a view / partial view. My question though is can I pass in an object without first having a model.

So something like Html.RenderPartial("MyPartialView", new { id=10, name="slappy" });

If I can, what would the partial view look like?

<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl<?????>" %>

and how would I access the properties?

Model.id???

EDIT

Just a follow up based on @Graphain’s solution this is in my view;

<% Html.RenderPartial("PagedList", new { id="10" } ); %>

Within my Partial View I have this;

[<%= ViewData["id"] %>] which renders [];

However this;

<%= Html.TextBox("id") %>

Gives me a textbox with the number 10 in it.

Answer 1

Sure.

Your partial view declaration should look like this:

 <%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %> 

And you’ll access properties like this:

 <%=ViewData.Eval("id")%>

You’ll be using ViewUserControl rather than ViewUserControl(Of TModel).

This means you’ll be accessing a ViewDataDictionary rather than a ViewDataDictionary(Of TModel) and will be dealing with just regular object data rather than strongly typed data (as well as string keys rather than strong-typed property names).

This link is a good intro on the differences:

The first type of ViewDataDictionary
is an untyped collection consisting of
a string and an object. The string
represents the key, and the object
holds the actual data. Like any
untyped collection, the object can be
of any type, but must be cast to the
correct type before it is used. Items
are referenced via their key in the
ViewData property of the
ViewUserControl (in the case of a
PartialView). The second is a strongly
typed collection, where items are
properties of the
ViewUserControl.Model property.