what is a partial view and how to execute it in MVC

The partial view is also a view. The main purpose of partial view is reusability. Normally partial view is part of another view. Say for example, in this website you can design the "footer part" alone as a partial view and you can use it in every page. So you can imporve the concept of reusability.

 

As the previous poster told, it is equivalent to "User Controls" in WebForm world.

 

Just, include it in the main view or return the partial view as a action result. There are multiple ways to execute the Partial views in MVC. You can find it in the below url:

 

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/821330/Work-with-Partial-view-in-MVC-framework