Gabriel Bogéa Perez

I was coding an demo application using the ASP.NET MVC Beta 1 and all the sudden I couldn’t access the RenderPartial method of the HtmlHelper from a Helper method I was writing. So where did it go?

I noticed that in the previous release the RenderPartial was a static method but in the Beta 1 they changed it to an Extension Method for the and it now lives in the namespace ’’‘System.Web.Mvc.Html’’’. So if you want to use this method all you need is to import this namespace in the classes where you are using the System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper class. In the Views you will notice that it keeps working as if nothing changed, that’s why the MVC’s development team has already added the System.Web.Mvc.Html namespace in the web.config. Here is the namespace node of the web.config the in MVC Beta 1.

<namespaces>
   <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/>
   <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax"/>
   <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html"/>
   <add namespace="System.Web.Routing"/>
   <add namespace="System.Linq"/>
   <add namespace="System.Collections.Generic"/>
 </namespaces>