Can't access ViewBag in a partial view in ASP.NET MVC3

Question

I have a controller calling a view. In the view there is a PartialView called be @Html.Partial(\"ViewName\", model). This works fine.

But i

Answer 1

If you are using an overload of the Html.Partial() where viewData is one of the input parameters, for example:

@Html.Partial("PartialViewName", Model, new ViewDataDictionary(ViewBag))

then your partial view will not see data from your original ViewBag.

Remove new ViewDataDictionary(ViewBag), so you should write

@Html.Partial("PartialViewName", Model)