Question

The overload for @Html.Partial takes a model, so in the “primary” view I put in this.model:

@Html.Partial("_GenericIndex", this.Model ) 

I tried just putting @Model in the partial view to see if anything showed up, but I got nothing.

So, how do I use that this.Model parameter in the partial view? I have seen some horrible solutions where it was prepared especially for the partial view in viewdata or something. Surely that is not necessary?

I just want to access the Html.Partial argument that I enter into it.

By the way my controller and action are like this:

public class TestController : Controller
{
    IRepository<Customer> customerrepo = RepositoryFactory.GetRepository<Customer>();

    //
    // GET: /Test/
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        Customer cust = customerrepo.GetByID("1");
        return View(cust);
    }
}

Answer 1

Simply this line to the top of your partial view:

@model Customer

Then you can use @Model in your partial view, and it will represent the object you passed in your @Html.Partial("_GenericIndex", Model) call.
even you can call @Html.Partial(“_GenericIndex”), which will passon the model of the current page to the partial page.