I had an Umbraco 7 setup that allowed me to render Nested Content with a foreach loop, pulling in separate partial files to render the information, mimicking the macros/"widget" customization on older versions of Umbraco. On a View page, I would have the following:

var items = Model.Value<IEnumerable<IPublishedElement>>("widgetsPicker");

if (items != null)
{
    foreach (var item in items)
    {
        String viewPath = null;

        viewPath = "~/Views/Partials/Widgets/" + item.ContentType.Alias + ".cshtml";
        try
        {
            @Html.Partial(viewPath, item);
        }
        catch
        {
            <p> Error in widget "@viewPath.ToString()".</p>
        }
    }
}

but this code doesn't appear to translate to Umbraco 8. The @Html.Partial(viewPath, item); section throws an error because of the 'item'. I can remove 'item' from the code and it pulls the Partial in, but anything within that partial tries to read fields on the main page instead of the fields of the Nested Content element, so it renders nothing. There doesn't seem to be a way to link the Nested Content to the Partial code.

Is there something I can do to get Nested Content working how I want?