Is there any way to provide the contents of a Razor view from a string variable rather than from a file?

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Example --

var myView = "<p>The date is @DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()</p>";
return View(myView);

Essentially, I want to override the MVC view resolution functionality which looks for the view on the file system. Instead of reading the Razor codein from a file, I want to provide it as a string.

(Why? So I can compile Views in a separate DLL and drop them into projects. Let me know if I'm going about this the completely wrong way.)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4730777/mvc-return-partial-view-as-json — Matt Bodily, Jan 18 '14 at 03:04
That's the exact opposite of what I want. I don't want to RENDER a view as a string, I want to PROVIDE a view as a string. — Deane, Jan 18 '14 at 03:31
so the answer to your question is yes. the link I gave turns a view into a string. Look at the format and you can create your string views as the same format and render them on the view http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18667447/return-partial-view-and-json-from-asp-net-mvc-action — Matt Bodily, Jan 18 '14 at 03:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 18 '14 at 03:52

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You can use RazorEngine to parse Razor from a string:

    string result = RazorEngine.Razor.Parse("<p>The date is @DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()</p>");
    return Content(result);

answered Jan 18 '14 at 03:52

Saravana

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '14 at 07:24

Controller class has one method named content which returns ContentResult

in your action you can use it like Content("your string content");

to your content you can configure this things

        // Summary:
        //     Gets or sets the content.
        //
        // Returns:
        //     The content.
        public string Content { get; set; }
        //
        // Summary:
        //     Gets or sets the content encoding.
        //
        // Returns:
        //     The content encoding.
        public Encoding ContentEncoding { get; set; }
        //
        // Summary:
        //     Gets or sets the type of the content.
        //
        // Returns:
        //     The type of the content.
        public string ContentType { get; set; }

Is there any way to provide the contents of a Razor view from a string variable rather than from a file?

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