RenderAction in an HtmlHelperExtension Method?

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Published on 2010-04-22T02:06:26Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 2:13 UTC
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I am trying to call the RenderAction Extension Method within my own Html Helper:

System.Web.Mvc.Html.ChildActionExtensions.RenderAction(helper, "account", "login");

this is so that along with some additional logic, I would like all html helpers to use a common method name structure when calling it on the view:

<%= Html.CompanyName().RenderAccount() %>

but the problem I am having is that, asp.net will complain about not finding the actual route it needs to process. It does not take in the parameters of "controller" to be used as the action and "login" to be used as the action. It seems to only reference the current route.

Any ideas how I can package up the RenderAction?

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