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    Partial View Macros

    Partial view macros are the recommended macro type to use in Umbraco. They work in both MVC and Webforms and use the unified query syntax that is available via the UmbracoHelper

    View/Model Type

    All partial view macro views inherit from Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage and as such, the header of each partial view macro file will have this syntax:

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

    The model type for a partial view macro is Umbraco.Web.Models.PartialViewMacroModel which contains all of the properties you will need to render out content as well as some additional properties about the macro itself: MacroName, MacroAlias, MacroId, and MacroParameters.

    File information

    By default Partial View Macros are stored in this folder:

    ~/Views/MacroPartials

    However if you are bundling up Partial View Macros as part of a package, they can also exist in this folder:

    ~/App_Plugins/[YourPackageName]/Views/MacroPartials

    Since Partial View Macros are a normal MVC partial view, their file extension is cshtml. All Partial View Macro views inherit from the view class

    Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

    Therefore all files will contain this header (which is done automatically for you if creating Partial View Macros via the Umbraco backoffice):

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage

    Accessing content

    The syntax in Partial View Macros is 100% on par with the MVC View syntax, in fact they are driven by the exact same engine as MVC Views.

    You can use @CurrentPage, @Model.Content, @Umbraco, ...

    Accessing macro parameters

    You can access the macro's parameters using the MacroParameters property on the model which is of type IDictionary<string, object>

    var myParam = Model.MacroParameters["aliasOfTheMacroParameter"];

    or via the typed GetParameterValue method in Umbraco.Web.Models namespace

    var myParam = Model.GetParameterValue<string>("aliasOfTheMacroParameter");

    and with default value fallback

    var myParam = Model.GetParameterValue<string>("aliasOfTheMacroParameter", "default value if parameter value has not been set");

    To take a look at how to access macro parameters, see the Using Macro Parameters video.