Passing data from Partial View to its parent View

Question

If I have a View and a Partial View, is there any way that I can pass data from the Partial View to the parent?

So if I have View.cshtml:

Answer 1

The simpler thing you could do is in _PartialView.cshtml:

@model dynamic
@{ 
    Model.Stuff = "stuff things";
}

and in parent view:

@{ 
    Html.RenderPartial("_PartialView", (object) ViewBag);
}

then in parent view you can use:

@ViewBag.Stuff