Your code looks OK and I’ve called RenderAction from a layout page with out problems.

Without looking at more of your code it’s difficult what the problem could be.

Have you tried breaking the problem down? E.g. starting with the view for the menu controller returning something simple like some text and without a layout page.

If that works then start adding back in components to find what breaks it.

Cheers,

Jag

 I am new to MVC and I am using version 3. In your example, in the layout page line that contains Html.RenderAction(‘Show”, “Category”) , where is the “Show” action located?  I am trying to implement a menu of dropdowns that will render via the layout regardless of the View in the “content” area (RenderBody()).  I have tried the default Index action in a specific MenuController as well as actions in the HomeController. Below is the Index action in the MenuController:

            Menu Example   
            @{Html.RenderAction(“Index”, “MenuController”);}   
            @RenderBody()   
            This is the footer   

But, no matter what controlller or action I use I am getting:

{“Execution of the child request failed. Please examine the InnerException for more information.”}

I am not getting enough information in other posts related to this error because no one in the posts is trying t do this that way I am.   What am I doing wrong?

Worked a treat. Much more understandable than the MSDN version

Thanks.

I work in a team of four .Net/SQL developers and two testers.

There were a few changes in developers during the project. By using scenarios new developers were able to get up to speed a lot quicker than just telling them to read the self-documenting code

Cheers,

Jag

We used Specflow (http://specflow.org/).

Cheers,

Jag