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

Views are the general result of a page that results in a display. It's the highest level container except the masterpage. While a partial view is for a small piece of content that may be reused on different pages, or multiple times in a page.

If you're coming from webforms, view is similar to a web content form, while a partial view is like a user control.