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I am struggling to render a view that has a partial inside the view.
The View does get rendered to string, but the partial inside the view does not get rendered at all.
Here is my View to String Utility Code:
public static class EmailUtility
{
public static async Task<string> RenderPartialViewToString(this Controller controller, string viewName, object model)
{
controller.ViewData.Model = model;
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
{
IViewEngine viewEngine = controller.HttpContext.RequestServices.GetService(typeof(ICompositeViewEngine)) as ICompositeViewEngine;
ViewEngineResult viewEngineResult = GetViewEngineResult(controller, viewName, false, viewEngine);
if (!viewEngineResult.Success)
{
return $"A view with the name {viewName} could not be found";
}
ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(
controller.ControllerContext,
viewEngineResult.View,
controller.ViewData,
controller.TempData,
sw,
new HtmlHelperOptions()
);
await viewEngineResult.View.RenderAsync(viewContext);
return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
}
}
private static ViewEngineResult GetViewEngineResult(Controller controller, string viewName, bool isPartial, IViewEngine viewEngine)
{
if (viewName.StartsWith("~/"))
{
var hostingEnv = controller.HttpContext.RequestServices.GetService(typeof(IWebHostEnvironment)) as IWebHostEnvironment;
return viewEngine.GetView(hostingEnv.WebRootPath, viewName, !isPartial);
}
else
{
return viewEngine.FindView(controller.ControllerContext, viewName, !isPartial);
}
}
}
This is how I call the method in the Controller:
string html = await this.RenderPartialViewToString("~/Views/Shared/MailerLayoutMaster.cshtml", model);
This is the MailerLayoutMaster.cshtml:
@model Model
@{
Layout = null;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
@{
switch ((int) Model.EmailType)
{
case (int) EmailTypeEnum.ContactUsSubmitted:
await Html.PartialAsync("../Shared/MailTemplates/EmailPartial.cshtml", Model);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
</body>
</html>
And this is my EmailPartial.cshtml
@model Model
<table>
<tr>
<td>Name: <b>@Model.Name</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Surname: <b>@Model.Surname</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email: <b>@Model.Email</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Number: <b>@Model.Phone</b></td>
</tr>
</table>
This is the string I get:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-ZA">
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Here is my project structure if it helps:
Controllers
Controller.cs
Utilities
ViewToStringUtil.cs
Views
Shared
MailTemplates
EmailPartial.cshtml
MailerLayoutMaster.cshtml
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asked Mar 22 '26 04:03
The solution was really simple.
All I needed was a @ before
await Html.PartialAsync("../Shared/MailTemplates/EmailPartial.cshtml", Model);
It should have been:
@await Html.PartialAsync("../Shared/MailTemplates/EmailPartial.cshtml", Model);
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