RazorEngine and parsing physical view files always causes exception

Question

I have the following RazorEngine call:

public class RazorEngineRender
{
    public static string RenderPartialViewToString(string templatePath, string viewName,          


        

Answer 1

If you make the call like so:

Razor.Parse(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(YourPath), 
            new { ActivationLink = activationLink });

That should give you the correct output. But after I see your method posted above I'll be able to make a determination where the problem lies.

Update

Change your method to the following:

public class RazorEngineRender {
    public static string RenderPartialViewToString(string templatePath, string viewName, T model) {            
        string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Path.Combine(templatePath, viewName));
        string renderedText = Razor.Parse(text, model);
        return renderedText;
    }
}

and you can call it like you do above.

The reason it doesn't work is because you're telling the Parser that the model is of type object rather than passing in what type it really is. In this case an anonymous type.