Remove ChildAction from OutPutCache in MVC 5?

Question

I'm developing a website with MVC 5.2.3, it has a top menu bar in _Layout.cshtml that contains logged in user information. Like user's FullName, so it shouldn't be cache.
For exclude this menu from OutPutCache, I created a child action for it.

[ChildActionOnly]
public PartialViewResult TopMenu()
{
    return PartialView("~/Views/Partials/TopMenuPartial.cshtml");
}

After that, I installed MvcDonutCaching nuget package and use it in _Layout.cshtml as the following:

@Html.Action("TopMenu", "Home", true)

But, it doesn't work, and if someone login, it's FullName came in top menu bar for all clients.

How should I remove this child action from MVC OutPutCache

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '16 at 05:05

I found the problem,
I didn't use DonutOutputCache attribute for output cache on actions, I used OutPutCache instead.
I changed it to DonutOutputCache, and add the following setting in Application_Start

protected void Application_Start()
{
...
DevTrends.MvcDonutCaching.OutputCache.DefaultOptions = DevTrends.MvcDonutCaching.OutputCacheOptions.ReplaceDonutsInChildActions;
...
}

Now, my problem solved.

Remove ChildAction from OutPutCache in MVC 5?

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