MVC 5 Render View to String

Question

It seems, most code for rendering view into string doesn\'t work in MVC 5.

I have latest MVC 5.1.2 templates and I am trying to render view into string.

Answer 1

To render PartialView to string use this code:

class FakeController: ControllerBase {
    protected override void ExecuteCore() { }
    public static string RenderViewToString(string controllerName, string viewName, object model) {
        using(var writer = new StringWriter()) {
            var routeData = new RouteData();
            routeData.Values.Add("controller", controllerName);
            var fakeControllerContext = new ControllerContext(new HttpContextWrapper(new HttpContext(new HttpRequest(null, "http://localhost", null), new HttpResponse(null))), routeData, new FakeController());
            var razorViewEngine = new RazorViewEngine();
            var razorViewResult = razorViewEngine.FindPartialView(fakeControllerContext, viewName, false);
            var viewContext = new ViewContext(fakeControllerContext, razorViewResult.View, new ViewDataDictionary(model), new TempDataDictionary(), writer);
            razorViewResult.View.Render(viewContext, writer);
            return writer.ToString();

        }
    }
}