What is the difference between a View and a PartialView in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

What is the difference between a View and a PartialView in ASP.NET MVC?

At first glance the need for both seems non-obvious to me.

Answer 1

It works like that:

• return View() the view content goes in the @RenderBody() of the /Shared/_Layout.cshtml

• return PartialView() it returns only the view content