What is difference between Partial View and layout?

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What is difference between Partial View and layout? How these are different and how to use? Can anyone please share some link to understand better?

Anupam Singh · Answer

Layout is just like a master page eg. navigation menu. Partial view is a simple view without any layout associated eg. table with data in view. please look into below links. layout http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/mvc_layout.asp. partial view http://mvc4beginner.com/Tutorial/MVC-Partial-Views.html