How to render a Razor View to a string in ASP.NET MVC 3?

Solution 1:

You can achieve that with the razorengine.

string template = "Hello @Model.Name! Welcome to Razor!";
string result = Razor.Parse(template, new { Name = "World" });

And it does not rely on the controller context - but because of that you are not able to use the Html helpers (which rely on the http context). But it is perfect to use razor as a template engine for strings.

Solution 2:

You can check this link.

extracted content From Render Razor view to String. .

public static string RenderRazorViewToString(string viewName, object model)
{
    ViewData.Model = model;
    using (var sw = new StringWriter())
    {
        var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);
        var viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
        viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
        return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
    }
}

Solution 3:

I had created solution for me. It's Extension that render view into string.

public static class RenderPartialToStringExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// render PartialView and return string
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context"></param>
    /// <param name="partialViewName"></param>
    /// <param name="model"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string RenderPartialToString(this ControllerContext context, string partialViewName, object model)
    {
        return RenderPartialToStringMethod(context, partialViewName, model);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// render PartialView and return string
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context"></param>
    /// <param name="partialViewName"></param>
    /// <param name="viewData"></param>
    /// <param name="tempData"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string RenderPartialToString(ControllerContext context, string partialViewName, ViewDataDictionary viewData, TempDataDictionary tempData)
    {
        return RenderPartialToStringMethod(context, partialViewName, viewData, tempData);
    }

    public static string RenderPartialToStringMethod(ControllerContext context, string partialViewName, ViewDataDictionary viewData, TempDataDictionary tempData)
    {
        ViewEngineResult result = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(context, partialViewName);

        if (result.View != null)
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb))
            {
                using (HtmlTextWriter output = new HtmlTextWriter(sw))
                {
                    ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(context, result.View, viewData, tempData, output);
                    result.View.Render(viewContext, output);
                }
            }

            return sb.ToString();
        }
        return String.Empty;
    }

    public static string RenderPartialToStringMethod(ControllerContext context, string partialViewName, object model)
    {
        ViewDataDictionary viewData = new ViewDataDictionary(model);
        TempDataDictionary tempData = new TempDataDictionary();
        return RenderPartialToStringMethod(context, partialViewName, viewData, tempData);
    }
}

And than we can render view in Action

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult GetTreeUnit(string id)
{
    int _id = id.ExtractID();
    string render = ControllerContext.RenderPartialToString("SomeView");
    return Json(new { data = render });
}