MVC3 - Passing data beyond the model to Partial view

Question

Is there a way to pass a piece of extra data along with a model to a Partial view?

E.G.

@Html.Partial(\"_SomeTable\", (List)ViewBag.Tabl

Answer 1

ViewDataDictionary can be used to replace the ViewData dictionary in the partial view... If you don't pass a ViewDataDictionary parameter then the parial's viewdata is the same as the parents.

An example of how to use it in the parent is:

@Html.Partial("_SomeTable", (List)ViewBag.Table, new ViewDataDictionary {{ "Key", obj }});

Then within the partial you can access this obj as follows:

@{ var obj = ViewData["key"]; }

A completely different approach woud be to use the Tuple class to group both the original model and extra data together as follows:

@Html.Partial("_SomeTable", Tuple.Create, string>((List)ViewBag.Table, "Extra data"));

The model type for the partial would then be:

@model Tuple, string>

Model.Item1 gives the List object and Model.Item2 gives the string