I’ve began working with asp.net mvc very recently and I’ve ran into a problem.
I’ve got an aspx page which renders a few ascx pages. What I’d like to do is declare a global var at the aspx page so it is visible to all its childs. I tried <% var i = 0; %> but it wasn’t visible at the child pages.
What could I do?
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Method 1
variables from a aspx page are not shared with the partial views.
The view is just a representation of a piece of data. You have to pass the data as a Model to each view you want to render, whether it’s a plain View or a PartialView.
<% Html.RenderPartial("ViewName", Model, ViewDataDictionnary) %>
If you want to pass a variable to a partial view, I would strongly recommend you to add this parameter to the model of the partial view, rather that to pass it additionally via the ViewDataDictionnary.
Method 2
You can add it to the ViewData and then pass the ViewData to the ascx with
<% Html.RenderPartial("ViewName", Model, ViewData) %>
So in your aspx page you’d do something like
<% ViewData["i"] = 0; %>
And in your userControl you’d just retrive it and use it as you want
<% int i = (int)ViewData["i"] %>
Another way would be to use RenderAction eand pass it as a parameter… so we’d need to know how you display your ascx.
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