Question

There is a master page with a simple menu at the top (MenuItem1, MenuItem2 and Administration) and a content area below. The first two entries are just links to HomeController actions which render views (which use the master page). With Administration there is a need to manage different kinds of objects (for example: users, groups, items, etc.) and it does not fit into one action idea. I know that it may be solved by adding the top menu “User Administration”, “Group Administration”, etc. (instead of a single menu item Administration) but I don’t like the solution. I prefer to have have some subsections under Administration – a kind of submenu or tabs which are only visible when Administration has been selected. How to achieve it in ASP.NET MVC?

Thanks in advance
Lukasz

Answer 1

You may find the usage of Html.Action and Html.RenderAction helpers useful. They allow you to have completely separate child MVC life-cycle integrated into the main MVC pipeline.