Is it possible to save an MVC Razor view into an actual html file

Question

We are building an MVC app that creates physical HTML pages. The app currently creates the pages dynamically using the normal MVC/Razor approach.

Rather than re-creating the output programatically to a file, is there anyway to grab the result built by razor and save it to a file?

Thanks so much!

Chivalric

Answer 1

you can render the view to string, then save the string in a file ...

public 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();
  }
}

Underrate

Sorry for the delay. I just did not get a chance to test this until now. Seems to be working well. Thanks so much! – Chivalric