#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
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 just 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 back office):
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Macros.PartialViewMacroPage
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, ...
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"];