Question on using content from other cshtml pages in razor

I've read a couple of articles on using asp.net mvc3 razor (which I am fairly new to). I have a couple of .cshmtl pages which are like shared content (e.g. header). They are basically just 开发者_JS百科html pages with one or two divs etc.

To embed this in my main page, do I just use @renderPage("page address"). Do I also need a call to @renderbody? Do I need to specify the/a page in the layout property?

Thanksa

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I would put the common elements in a layout (or perhaps a partial view rendered by the base layout). In fact, that's what I did in an application I am now building and it works quite nicely. The one issue is whether or not you need View Model data populated by the controller and passed to that partial view. I did, so I used a base controller and populated the common elements in the view model (all of those also inherited from a base class that had the common properties) and used sections and then in the sections renderered the partial view or not, depending on the view's need.

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You can create a Partial View for each of these and call:

@Html.Partial("ViewName")

Or you can use sections, or this article on sections might help too.

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As you may or may not know, ASP.NET accepts HTML tagging.

So why not include your .aspx file with the HTML include tag?

Here's how:

<!-- #include virtual="path to file/include-file.html" -->

Ex:

<!--#include virtual="header.aspx"-->

I do this all of the time when writing an ASP.NET website.

Just place it wherever you want the code, from the included page, to show up.