How to display WebForms .ascx as partial view in MVC 3

Question

I am building a new ASP.NET MVC 3 application. In this application, I would like to display an old WebForms user control (.ascx/.ascx.cs) in an overlay in my new MVC razor a

Answer 1

It is very bad practice to do such a thing. However this could be achieved by the following code:

@Html.Partial("_Foo")

Then in your _Foo partial view, you could have the following:

<%@ Control Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewUserControl" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="SomeAssembly" Namespace="SomeNs" TagName="foo" %>

Hope this helps. Have a look at this question:

• MVC 3: Add usercontrol to Razor view