Question

I have a partial view in an ASP.NET MVC app:

@Html.Partial("_Comments", Model)

I want to make this partial a “plugin” that can be called from other apps. So, I created a separate action in my controller to return this partial view alone:

public ActionResult Embed()
{
    return View("_Comments", new CommentsModel());
}

This action can then be accessed via the URL [root]/Comments/Embed and returns the partial view’s HTML.

Is there a clean way to embed the response from this URL in a separate MVC razor view (in an entirely different app)?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I found a solution.

@Html.Raw(new WebClient().DownloadString("[root]/Comments/Embed"))