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

Based on the answers supplied to asimilar question below, I would suggest using

Html.Partial(partialViewName)

It returns an MvcHtmlString, which you should able to use as the content of your SignalR reponse. I have not tested this, however.

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