Render view to a string

[Jon Kruger]

Is there any way in MVCContrib that I can render a view to a string
from inside a controller method? I can do it using the methods
outlined in these posts:

http://www.brightmix.com/blog/how-to-renderpartial-to-string-in-asp-net-mvc/comment-page-2/#comment-785
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483091/render-a-view-as-a-string

... but I was wondering if this is baked in MVCContrib by now.

Jon

[Jeremy Skinner]

Since Preview 5 the IView interface's Render method can take a TextWriter to which the view can be rendered. 

Unfortunately, the WebFormViewEngine does not make use of this parameter due to limitations of the underlying webforms implementation. With other view engines you could pass a StringWriter to the view.Render method to capture the output, but with the WebForms view engine you're stuck with the BlockRenderer.

Jeremy

2009/2/20 Jon Kruger <krug...@gmail.com>