asp.net mvc partial view errors out

Question

My partial view, called _myTestView.cshtml

<div style="border:1px solid red;">

TEST

</div>

I call it like that

<div>
  @Html.RenderPartial("_myTestView");
</div>

I get the following run time error

Compiler Error Message: CS1502: The best overloaded method match for 'System.Web.WebPages.WebPageExecutingBase.Write(System.Web.WebPages.HelperResult)' has some invalid arguments

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You're not inside a code block, so you don't use .RenderPartial

Just use .Partial and get rid of the ;

<div>
  @Html.Partial("_myTestView")
</div>

Answer 2

Put it inside a code block

@{Html.RenderPartial("_myTestView");}

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