I'm wondering if there's an easy way to do the following:
Say I have a blog where I want a master view of the past X number of entries.
For each of those entries I have a small template for the title, the name of the author, an avatar and the body of the post.
Simple enough that I could template that for blog entries, but what if I wanted to use this template for several purposes by injecting another partial view into where I am placing the body of the post? Is there a simple way to do this in MVC3. Please forgive me if this is simple, I might be missing a search term :)
Here is an example:
Template for each "Entry":
@{
ViewBag.Title = "_Entry";
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@Url.Content("~/css/post.css")" />
<section id="content" class="body">
<hgroup>
<ol id="posts-list" class="feed">
<li>
<article class="entry">
<header>
<h2 class="entry-title">
<a href="#" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to this POST TITLE">
</a>
</h2>
</header>
<footer class="post-info">
<abbr class="published" title="2005-10-10T14:07:00-07:00">
<!-- YYYYMMDDThh:mm:ss+ZZZZ -->
</abbr>
<address class="vcard author">
<a class="url fn" href="#">
</a>
</address>
</footer>
</article>
</li>
<li>
<article class="entry">
<footer class="post-info">
<address class="vcard author">
<img src=""></img>
</address>
</footer>
<!-- /.post-info -->
<div class="entry-content">
<p>
</p>
</div>
<!-- /.entry-content -->
</article>
</li>
</ol>
</hgroup>
<!-- /#posts-list -->
</section>
and an example how it might be used in a different context (except this represents the desired end expression...I'm wondering if there's a way to take the Entry, as a view, and dynamically inject a partial view into it (in the below example, that "injection" would be for the log on view):
@model MyTemplate.Models.LogOnModel
@{
Page.Title = "Log On";
}
@section HeadContent
{
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@Url.Content("~/css/openid.css")" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="@Url.Content("~/css/post.css")" />
}
@section ScriptSection
{
<script type="text/javascript" src="@Url.Content("~/js/libs/openid-jquery.js")"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
openid.init('openid_identifier');
});
</script>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/mvc/3.0/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.8.1/jquery.validate.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
}
<section id="content" class="body">
<hgroup>
<ul id="posts-list" class="feed">
<li>
<article class="entry">
<header>
<h2 class="entry-title">
<a href="#" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to this POST TITLE">
Account Login
</a>
</h2>
<p>
>>
</br>
Please enter your username and password.
<br />
<br />
@Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register") if you don't have an account.
</p>
</header>
</article>
</li>
<li>
<article class="entry">
<footer class="post-info">
<address class="vcard author">
<img src="../img/Hive.png" alt="units" id="gravatar" width="175" height="175" class="imageBorderRadius"></img>
</address>
</footer>
<!-- /.post-info -->
<div class="entry-content">
@Html.ValidationSummary(true)
@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
<div>
<fieldset>
<legend>Account Information</legend>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.UserName)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.UserName)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.Password)
</div>
<div class="editor-field">
@Html.PasswordFor(m => m.Password)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Password)
</div>
<div class="editor-label">
@Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.RememberMe)
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.RememberMe)
</div>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Log On" />
</p>
</fieldset>
</div>
}
</div>
<!-- /.entry-content -->
</article>
</li>
</ul>
</hgroup>
<!-- /#posts-list -->
</section>
@Html.Partial("_OpenId")
Any guidance would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Edited: 2012-02-12
As noted in my comments to the accepted answer, I realized I was really trying to go for an MVVM approach which, despite the name of the framework, may be a completely viable idea in some cases.
I was reading a blog post by Anoop that reminded me of this question and I thought I would add an interesting alternative that may be especially useful in the event you are going for an MVVM approach with the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework:
notice how he uses the below template in this post: KsigDo Task Pad – Real-Time UI View Model syncing across users with ASP.NET, SignalR, Knockout MVVM and EF
<script type="text/html" id="taskTemplate">
<li style="list-style-image: url('/images/task.png')">
<input type="checkbox" data-bind="checked: completed" />
<input class="ui-corner-all" data-bind="value: title, enable: !completed()" />
<input class="ui-button" type="button" href="#" data-bind="click: remove" value="x"></input>
</li>
</script>