What is the difference between view an partial view in mvc 4

• MVC view contains the layout page. • Before any view is rendered, viewstart page is rendered. • View might have markup tags like body, html, head, title, meta etc. • Partial does not contain the layout page. • In MVC Partial view is designed specially to render within the view and just because of that it does not consist any mark up. • Partial View is lightweight as compare to View.

View: • MVC view contains the layout page. • Before any view is rendered, viewstart page is rendered. • View might have markup tags like body, html, head, title, meta etc. Partial View: • Partial does not contain the layout page. • In MVC Partial view is designed specially to render within the view and just because of that it does not consist any mark up. • Partial View is not lightweight as compare to View.

it does not contain html body.

A partial view is a "sub-view" that you embed within a main view - something that you might reuse across multiple views, like a sidebar

View have layout , But partial view not have

best article i have found on this is http://completedevelopment.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-there-really-no-difference-between.html

Partial view is similar to ascx in asp.net i.e- usercontrol where as View is a whole cshtml page

partial view() is Reusable view.but view() is a single page means which will render a normal .aspx page

View can basically contains a complete markup which may contain a master view(or master page) with all the design(s) etc. whereas Partial view is only a portion of page or a small markup which don't have master page. It is basically used as user control in mvc and it can be used at more than one views.

View:It means only one view in page. Partial View:It means one view with different views or coloumns

Returning a View() will render a normal .aspx page that can also consist of Partial Views, while returning PartialView() will render an .ascx control (Basically a portion of HTML that can be requested through AJAX requests). return View(); //Returns a fully-featured HTML page with associated headers etc. return PartialView(); //Returns a portion of HTML that can be called via AJAX requests. However - if you are using the Razor View Engine, there will not be a major difference between the two. You could have a specific View that could be rendered as either a Partial View or as a traditional View, the difference would be if you used View or PartialView to call it.