Access Parent Model from partial view

Question

I\'m asking because the partial view I will create is blank, with the purpose of creating a new child entity. I just need a quick, regardless if dirty, way to access the Pa

Answer 1

I know this is an old topic, but I figured I'd just add my solution to the same problem anyway. I think it's a bit cleaner.

Basically add a model to the partial view.

The encapsulating view:

@model whatever
...
@Html.Partial("partialview", anotherwhatever)

The partial view:

@model anotherwhatever
@Model.something
...

In my case I just needed to pass a string into the partial view (just using it to shorten and partition code), so this was much more elegant than the other solution.

I tried the other solution first and actually couldn't get it to work, it just acted as though the value I passed was blank.