MVC 4: How to convert string into IView?

Question

My purpose of this is to render string into view. This is what i have done:

public string RenderRazorViewToString(string viewName, object model, string controllerName)
{
    ViewData.Model = model;
    Type controllerType = Type.GetType(controllerName + "Controller");
    object controller = Activator.CreateInstance(controllerType);
    RouteData rd = new System.Web.Routing.RouteData();
    rd.Values.Add("controller", "Account");
    ((ControllerBase)(controller)).ControllerContext = new ControllerContext(HttpContext, rd, (ControllerBase)controller);
    ControllerContext cc = ((ControllerBase)(controller)).ControllerContext;

    using (var sw = new StringWriter())
    {
        var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindView(cc, viewName, null);
        var viewContext = new ViewContext(cc, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
        viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
        viewResult.ViewEngine.ReleaseView(cc, viewResult.View);
        return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
    }
}

Basically what this code does is to render a view file that is found in :

var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindView(cc, viewName, null);

And renders it in :

viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);

What i want is not finding view file, but i want to render view that is stored in my database as string. So what i need is:

1. Getting database view string
2. Render the database view string
3. Output it as string after render

How can i achieve this?

Answer 1

You can simply use

@Html.Raw(mystring)

mystring will be the view content stored in database