View:

☛ It contains the layout page.

☛ Before any view is rendered, viewstart page is rendered.

☛ View might have markup tags like body, html, head, title, meta etc.

☛ View is not lightweight as compare to Partial View.

Partial View:

☛ It does not contain the layout page.

☛ Partial view does not verify for a viewstart.cshtml.We cannot put common code for a partial view within the viewStart.cshtml.page.

☛ Partial view is designed specially to render within the view and just because of that it does not consist any mark up.

☛ We can pass a regular view to the RenderPartial method.