Dynamic menu from database

Question

I have a Login page where on login it takes user to Home Page where dynamic menu is loaded.The problem is that when a user clicks on

Answer 1

Create a separate [ChildActionOnly] method that generates your menu and call it from the layout page so its available in all pages

[ChildActionOnly]
public ActionResult Menu()
{
  var model = new DashboardVM
  {
     ....
  }
  return PartialView("_Menu", model);
}

and create a _Menu.cshtml partial view to generate the html

@model DashboardVM
....

and then in your layout, remove @model SMS.Models.ViewModel.DashboardVM (a layout should not have a model unless that model is a base class for all models used by the layout) and then include

@Html.Action("Menu", yourControllerName)

which will call the Menu method and insert the partial view it returns into the layout.