Return Razor partial view using JSON (ASP MVC 3)

Question

In MVC 2 with the regular view engine i could return a ascx partial view as string through return Json()

But with the new Razor .cshtml views I can not

Answer 1

This might help you as I've written it off the top of my head without testing it other than to validate it returns the rendered cshtml file.

I assumed this was a method in a Controller.

private string ControlToString(string controlPath, object model) {
    CshtmlView control = new CshtmlView(controlPath);

    HtmlTextWriter writer = new HtmlTextWriter(new System.IO.StringWriter());
    control.Render(new ViewContext(this.ControllerContext, control, this.ViewData, this.TempData, writer), writer);

    string value = ((StringWriter)writer.InnerWriter).ToString();

    return value;
}