Getting HTML Generated By ASP.NET MVC View

Question

I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC 4 app. I'm trying to build a report screen that takes a while (~30 seconds) to generate due to the data. What I would like to do is get the HTML that's generated by the view and save it to a text file.

Is there a way to get the HTML generated by a View? If so, how? Please note that my .cshtml file includes some RAZOR. I'm not sure if that plays into this equation or not.

Thank you so much for your help!

Why you dont open in browser and save source as to get all html component..Once it is in browser there will be no razor syntax only plain html,css,script. — Garry
– Garry, Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 15:28
What are you intending on doing with this HTML? caching the output? If so, it would probably be better to look at caching the data instead. — Kinexus
– Kinexus, Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 15:30
Why do you want to write this to a file? Do what Chris says and look at caching the request — CR41G14
– CR41G14, Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 15:31
I think Bill Jones want to export report data not html ...If this is the case it is a bad idea to export using html as asp.net and c# already gives report export support... — Garry
– Garry, Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 15:34
Check out this answer and see if it helps Render a view as a string. — Caleb Kiage
– Caleb Kiage, Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 15:43

Oliver · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-04 16:53:07Z

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I use the following function to do this sort of thing, usually when I want to create email HTML using razor:

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

answered Mar 4, 2013 at 16:53

Oliver

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