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    <p>I have a partial view, in my ASP.NET MVC4 web app. It's just a partial view designed to display a table, given a collection of entities. It looks like this:</p> <pre><code>@model ICollection&lt;Portal.Models.Matter&gt; &lt;table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover"&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Name&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Last Accessed&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Client&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; @if (Model.Count &gt; 0) { @Html.DisplayForModel() } else { &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="3" class="text-muted text-centered"&gt;There are no Matters to display.&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; } &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>I have a DisplayTemplate for <code>Matter</code> that is statically typed to the single <code>Matter</code> entity, and it handles rendering of each table row.</p> <p>For some reason, when this partial is rendered, instead of using the <code>Matter</code> DisplayTemplate it just shows the following:</p> <pre><code>System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Portal.Models.Account]System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Portal.Models.Account] </code></pre> <p>Now, this partial is not even bound to a collection of <code>Account</code> entities. It's bound to a collection of <code>Matter</code> entities. So, why is <code>@Html.DisplayForModel()</code> trying to display for a collection of <code>Account</code>s? At run time, using a debugger, I can see the <code>Model</code> is in fact a collection of <code>Matter</code> entities, not <code>Account</code>.</p> <p>I render this partial using the following code:</p> <pre><code>@Html.Partial("~/Views/Matter/_Table.cshtml", Model.Client.Matters, new ViewDataDictionary()) </code></pre>
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    2. COI was just testing it. With or without that, the same thing occurs.
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    3. COIs it possible for you to post a screenshot of all the files you have in your `~/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates` folder?
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