How to render partial view to string?

Question

How to call Html.Partial() method from controller or some other method in external class library?

I need something like:

string someView = "SomeView";
object someModel = new SomeModel();    
HtmlHelper helper = new HtmlHelper();    
string html = helper.Partial(someView, someModel).ToString();

I need to get html string which this method returns.

Pretty sure you are doing something wrong. What are you trying to accomplish? — Andrew Barber, Jun 15 '12 at 08:36
So, what you want is to be able to use the Razor engine on a template outside of a view? — Andrew Barber, Jun 15 '12 at 08:42
I don't need to use Razor engine. Only System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper class methods outside mvc project. — Dmytro, Jun 15 '12 at 08:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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If you want to render partial view to string you can use this link: Render a view as a string

But i think you doing something wrong...

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Jun 15 '12 at 08:49

Sanja Melnichuk

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '12 at 09:57

you need to use WebClient for download the html page, something like that:

string viewUrl = Url.RouteUrl(new { Controller = "Pages", Action = "Index" });

WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
string result = client.DownloadString(new Uri(viewUrl ));

then you will get the page's html

How to render partial view to string?

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