Render MVC PartialView into SignalR response

Question

I would like to render a PartialView to an HTML string so I can return it to a SignalR ajax request.

Something like:

SignalR Hub (mySignal

Answer 1

Probably the best choice is to use RazorEngine, as Wim is suggesting.

public class mySignalRHub: Hub
{
    public string getTableHTML()
    {
        var viewModel = new[] { new DataItem { Value1 = "v1", Value2 = "v2" } };

        var template = File.ReadAllText(Path.Combine(
            AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory,
            @"Views\PathToTablePartialView\_MyTablePartialView.cshtml"));

        return Engine.Razor.RunCompile(template, "templateKey", null, viewModel);
    }
}