Child actions are not allowed to perform redirect actions. (Using PartialViews)

Question

I\'m trying to load my partial view with some data from database, but I\'m getting following issue when I run the application:

Child actions are not allo

Answer 1

Hi you may try by changing this line @Html.Action("UnreadEmails", "Message") to like this @{Html.Action("Category","Home");}

if the above doesnt work there are three other ways to render the partial view in mvc. those are

Html.RenderPartial  
Html.RenderAction
Html.Partial

you make use any one of the above and get your solution.

Good example with comparision can be found here:http://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/mvc/renderpartial-vs-renderaction-vs-partial-vs-action-in-mvc-razor

Hope it was helpful,kindly let me know your thoughts or feedbacks

Thanks Karthik