MVC nested views and partial views

Question

I am in the process of creating a prototype project using MVC 3 and I have come across a situation which I can\'t seem to find an answer for and it seems like I might be app

Answer 1

You can not use @RenderBody() multiple times. One @RenderBody() in your main _Layout file is fair enough. In your second view use instead @RenderPartial() or @RenderAction.

UPDATE (based on first comment)

Let's say you want to render /Administrator/TheAction, so you will call

@{
    Html.RenderAction("TheAction", "Administrator");
}

TheAction action will look like this:

public PartialViewResult TheAction() {
    return PartialView();
}

And it will render the view in ~/Views/Administrator/TheAction.cshtml right inside the place from which you called the RenderAction().

The importance is that it does not accomplish another @RenderBody. As you can see in TheAction() example, you are returning PartialViewResult, which does not have any @RenderBody() helper.