Question

I am struggling for hours to render a view from another controller to a string.
I use that to generate email templates. For this I created a controller called EmailController that has a view ConfirmationEmail.cshtml
I want to render that view in Home.Index action for example. The reason for this is organisation because I want to have the email views in ~/View/Email/… and EmailController will be used just for rendering them. Also ~/View/Shared/Email/… will be ok if you have another suggestion.

Do you suggest another approach?

I saw this thread ASP.NET MVC Razor: How to render a Razor Partial View's HTML inside the controller action but I cannot make it work.

I need something like:

    public ActionResult Index()
        {
                EmailController emailController = new EmailController();
                ControllerContext context = new ControllerContext(this.ControllerContext.RequestContext, emailController);
                EmailController.RenderPartialViewToString(emailController, "ConfirmationEmail", new EmailModel());
}

This does not work 🙁 and the viewResult object in RenderPartialViewToString method is null.
Do you have a solution for this?

Answer 1

Did you check out MvcMailer project?

https://github.com/smsohan/MvcMailer/wiki/MvcMailer-Step-by-Step-Guide