How to invoke a View Component from controller

Question

Is it possible to invoke a View Component from controller and render it to a string? I am really looking for some code example for this. Any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

As of beta7 it is now possible to return a ViewComponent directly from a controller. Check the MVC/Razor section of the announcement

The new ViewComponentResult in MVC makes it easy to return the result of a ViewComponent from an action. This allows you to easily expose the logic of a ViewComponent as a standalone endpoint.

So now the code for returning the sample view component just needs to be:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public IActionResult Index()
    {
        return ViewComponent("My");
    }
}