Render razor view to string without munging the html

问题

I've previously found answers on how to render an MVC 4 view to a string. However, I started using Visual Studio 2013 and now the result is not as expected. See below.

 <$A$><$B$> <$C$> class="panel"<$D$>> <$E$> class="cover-wrapper"<$F$>> <$G$> href="     
 <$H$>/book/<$I$><$J$>1<$K$><$L$>/<$M$>"<$N$>><$O$> src="<$P$>http://www.
 example.com/images/image.jpg<$Q$>"<$R$> class="cover"<$S$> /> <$T$> href="<$U$>
 <$V$>"<$W$> target="_blank"<$X$> rel="nofollow"<$Y$> class="amazon-button"<$Z$>> <$a$> 
 class="amazon-cart"<$b$>> Link → 
 <$c$> class="content"<$d$>>..........

The code being used is this:

    public 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);
            viewResult.ViewEngine.ReleaseView(ControllerContext, viewResult.View);
            return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
        }
    }

Any idea as to why all the letters and dollar signs are showing up now or how I need to change my code to get it to give me usable html?

回答1:

This is actually a bug I ran into during the summer, see bug report and response from Microsoft here bug and workaround. Good news is that according to MS it should be fixed when VS2013 is released.

Workaround is to disable the browser link feature see here browser link feature

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18387499/render-razor-view-to-string-without-munging-the-html