Partial view with RenderPartial, model does not contain a definition

Question

I have a controller which returns a view.

Within the view I render a common shared partial view, and pass parameters in to it:

<div class="tab-pane" id="tab-sla">@{Html.RenderPartial(
        "./_sla",
        new
        {
            ContentTitle = "Service Level"
        });
    }
</div>

However whenever in the partial view _sla I try and access the property ContentTitle, it throws an error 'object' does not contain a definition for 'ContentTitle'.

If i dump the model properties with @Model.ToString() it shows { ContentTitle = "Service Level" }.

Can someone please advise what I am doing wrong and how this can be fixed?

possible duplicate of [MVC Razor dynamic model, 'object' does not contain definition for 'PropertyName'](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4862122/mvc-razor-dynamic-model-object-does-not-contain-definition-for-propertyname) — volpav, Jan 04 '14 at 19:33

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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This might help (taken from this SO answer, thanks to Lucas):

According to David Ebbo, you can't pass an anonymous type into a dynamically-typed view because the anonymous types are compiled as internal. Since the CSHTML view is compiled into a separate assembly, it can't access the anonymous type's properties.

You may also try using ViewData when accessing model properties. Helps me sometimes:

<h1>@ViewData["ContentTitle"]</h1>

Hope this helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Jan 04 '14 at 19:35

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@JohnH Yes, because I had some additional information (which might be useful) to share. – volpav Jan 04 '14 at 19:39
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@JohnH and that's why I'd prefer this question to be closed ;-) The workaround that I mentioned might be enough, though, thus the answer (I don't know whether the author wants to go for a normal model type). – volpav Jan 04 '14 at 19:44
Thanks, makes sense now, weirdest thing is i am doing the same from within a partial view that calls another partial view and that works OK. I will create a model before using it, or just use `@model string` and pass in a string (a workaround i just did) – morleyc Jan 04 '14 at 19:49
@g18c, see my answer in the linked question for full details on the anomaly you are experiencing. It's a real gotcha! – joshcomley Feb 07 '14 at 16:59
The view and the partial views are on the same assembly. – kazinix Apr 26 '17 at 05:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

For full details please see the question and my answer here:

MVC Razor dynamic model, 'object' does not contain definition for 'PropertyName'

Essentially, the most likely reason it stopped working is because you have another view in the same folder with a model type that is not resolvable.

Correct the offending view with the broken model type, clean and rebuild the solution and it should work again.

Partial view with RenderPartial, model does not contain a definition

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