How to include a partial view inside a webform

Question

Some site I\'m programming is using both ASP.NET MVC and WebForms.

I have a partial view and I want to include this inside a webform. The partial view has some code

Answer 1

This is great, thanks!

I'm using MVC 2 on .NET 4, which requires a TextWriter gets passed into the ViewContext, so you have to pass in httpContextWrapper.Response.Output as shown below.

    public static void RenderPartial(String partialName, Object model)
    {
        // get a wrapper for the legacy WebForm context
        var httpContextWrapper = new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current);

        // create a mock route that points to the empty controller
        var routeData = new RouteData();
        routeData.Values.Add(_controller, _webFormController);

        // create a controller context for the route and http context
        var controllerContext = new ControllerContext(new RequestContext(httpContextWrapper, routeData), new WebFormController());

        // find the partial view using the viewengine
        var view = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(controllerContext, partialName).View as WebFormView;

        // create a view context and assign the model
        var viewContext = new ViewContext(controllerContext, view, new ViewDataDictionary { Model = model }, new TempDataDictionary(), httpContextWrapper.Response.Output);

        // render the partial view
        view.Render(viewContext, httpContextWrapper.Response.Output);
    }