How to render a Razor View to a string in ASP.NET MVC 3?

Question

I've been searching the site a lot, but all I could find were examples on how to render partial controls .ascx, or depended on a controller context.

I want a method that enables me to provide just the relative path to the view, and a model, and render that view with that model into a string:

string result = Utility.RenderViewToString("~/Views/My/Profile.cshtml", model); 

All the examples I could find were either for older versions of MVC, or simply didn't do what I need to do here.

Answer 1

You can achieve that with the razorengine.

string template = "Hello @Model.Name! Welcome to Razor!"; string result = Razor.Parse(template, new { Name = "World" }); 

And it does not rely on the controller context - but because of that you are not able to use the Html helpers (which rely on the http context). But it is perfect to use razor as a template engine for strings.

Answer 2

You can check this link.

extracted content From Render Razor view to String. .

public static string RenderRazorViewToString(string viewName, object model) {     ViewData.Model = model;     using (var sw = new StringWriter())     {         var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);         var viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);         viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);         return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();     } }