Ok I found the problem, hopefully this will help someone in future. The controllers for the partial views each contained the [HttpGet] attribute. For example [HttpGet] public ActionResult Index() { } I remove the attribute from both controllers public ActionResult Index() { } and everything is now working.
I was finally able to do it with ViewComponent. So, instead of RenderAction(), I did: @section xyz{ @await Component.InvokeAsync(“abc”) } Where abc is a class as abcViewComponent. The ViewComponent looks like: public class abcViewComponent : ViewComponent { private DbContextOptions<MyContext> db = new DbContextOptions<MyContext>(); public async Task<IViewComponentResult> InvokeAsync() { MyContext context = new MyContext(db); IEnumerable<tableRowClass> mc … Read more
Html.Partial returns a String. Html.RenderPartial calls Write internally and returns void. The basic usage is: // Razor syntax @Html.Partial(“ViewName”) @{ Html.RenderPartial(“ViewName”); } // WebView syntax <%: Html.Partial(“ViewName”) %> <% Html.RenderPartial(“ViewName”); %> In the snippet above, both calls will yield the same result. While one can store the output of Html.Partial in a variable or return … Read more