pass enum to strong typed partial view

Question

I have an strong typed partial view that receives an enum:

@model MyEnum 
@{
   Layout = null
}
@if (Model == MyEnum.Value1) {
    //... dosomething
}
@if (Model == MyEnum.Value2) {
    //... do another thing
}

I can't call render partial properly like this

@{ Html.RenderPartial("MyPartialView", MyEnum.Value2); }

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Other than the fact that you are missing a ; after the null layout assignment I cannot see what prevents you from doing so (unable to repro as I like saying):

@{
    Layout = null;
}

Here's a full working example illustrating that this should work.

Model:

public enum MyEnum
{
    Value1,
    Value2
}

Controller:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

Index.cshtml view:

<div>
@{ Html.RenderPartial("MyPartialView", MyEnum.Value2); }
</div>

MyPartialView.cshtml partial:

@model MyEnum
@{
    Layout = null;
}
@if (Model == MyEnum.Value1) {
    <div>Value 1 was selected</div>
}
@if (Model == MyEnum.Value2)
{
    <div>Value 2 was selected</div>
}

which as expected outputs in the resulting HTML:

<div>Value 2 was selected</div>