How to serve html file from another directory as ActionResult

Question

I have a specialised case where I wish to serve a straight html file from a Controller Action.

I want to serve it from a different folder other than the Views folder

Answer 1

I want put my two cents in. I have found this most terse and it is there already :

public ActionResult Index()
{
     var encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
     var html = ""; //get it from file, from blob or whatever
     return this.Content(html, "text/html; charset=utf-8");
}