title: StackOverflow Exception on @Html.Action()
body: <p>I am trying to get my login partial to read the user's first and last name from my database.  Therefore, I am trying to call an action from my layout instead of the view partial.</p>
  
  <pre><code>@If Request.IsAuthenticated Then
  
        @&lt;text&gt;&lt;div class="authBox"&gt;Welcome &lt;strong&gt;@User.Identity.Name&lt;/strong&gt;!
        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/text&gt;
  
  Else
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting a stack overflow exception on this line in my layout:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Html.Action("RenderLogOnPartial", "Employee")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the action I am calling:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    ' 
      ' GET: /Employee/RenderLogOnPartial
      Public Function RenderLogOnPartial() As ViewResult
  
          Return View("_LogOnWithValidationPartial")
  
      End Function
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What can I do to get the first and last name into my view partial?  Thanks.</p>