Writing to Output Stream from Action

Question

For some strange reasons, I want to write HTML directly to the Response stream from a controller action. (I understand MVC separation, but this is a special case.)

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Answer 1

Write your own Action Result. Here's an example of one of mine:

public class RssResult : ActionResult
{
    public RssFeed RssFeed { get; set; }

    public RssResult(RssFeed feed) {
        RssFeed = feed;
    }

    public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) {
        context.HttpContext.Response.ContentType = "application/rss+xml";
        SyndicationResourceSaveSettings settings = new SyndicationResourceSaveSettings();
        settings.CharacterEncoding = new UTF8Encoding(false);
        RssFeed.Save(context.HttpContext.Response.OutputStream, settings);
    }
}