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Render a view as a string
I want to load a View into a variable so I can send it via Mail.
I'd want it to work like this:
var mail = new SmtpClient();
var mailView = View("registration.cshtml", userModel);
mail.Send(FromAddress, userModel.Email, mailView.ViewBag.Title, mailView.ToString());
everything but the ToString() works. How do I force MVC to compile the view?
Here's a little method for ya to put inside your controller.
protected string RenderViewToString(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);
viewResult.ViewEngine.ReleaseView(ControllerContext, viewResult.View);
return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
}
}
And then you can use it like this:
string viewString = RenderViewToString("viewName", yourModel);
Controller. I assumed you'd be doing this in a controller.Controller. Evidently the company I work for had implemented their own. Check my edit in a secIt's unlikely that you're actually going to send a View to a user (that is, a web page that you would render to a browser). What you probably want is a way to render Razor templates to an email. For that, there are several tools you can use. For example, I use FluentEmail, which renders templates quite nicely.
From a software engineering stand point, it's not good practice to have your controllers render an email anyways. This should be encapsulated into business processes. Having your controller render an email violates the Single Responsibility Principal.
I agree, that sending data from controller is bad idea. For example use MSMQ. Also look at this links:
