View() vs. PartialView()

Question

The View() method can load Partial Views.

Is the difference between View() and PartialView() is that View() can

Answer 1

If you have Index.aspx and Index.ascx for the same controller having both methods might help disambiguate. But I agree that in general View is more commonly used. And PartialView can also be used to load full views, it's just that it's semantically wrong.