ASP.NET MVC stack overflow exception when calling a partial view from master page

Question

I\'m getting a stack overflow error when I try to call a partial view from the master.

The Partial View:

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Answer 1

I have seen this error before. In my case it happened when i returned a call to View() rather than PartialView() for Html.RenderAction or Html.Action in my action methods.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

What happens when you change

<%= Html.Action("TestLogin", "Members")%>

to

<%= Html.RenderPartial("TestLogin", "Members");%>?

Please also note there is a ; at the end of the command. Miss this and you'll get another error.

Answer 3

I got the exact same thing because I was loading a user control that was essentially a menu bar, but full of Html.Action(), rather than Html.ActionLink(), so it was continuously calling the Action and because it went back to a page that inherited the same masterpage, was calling it again...and again...and again.

So yeah my problem was I was using the wrong keyword.