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 is the MVC 3 Beta version of the code:

    private string ControlToString(string controlPath, object model)
    {
        //CshtmlView control = new CshtmlView(controlPath);
        RazorView control = new RazorView(this.ControllerContext, controlPath, null, false, null);

        this.ViewData.Model = model;

        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;
    }

Answer 2

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;
}