Question

I need the Html helper from a view to be accessed inside a template, so I can do this inside a view:

ViewData["RootHtmlHelper"]=Html;

Inside the template this html helper can so be catched.

But how to do that without changing anything in the original view code which doesn’t have the line "ViewData["RootHtmlHelper"]=Html;" ?
Does have a way to do that using IViewEngine ?
During View life-cycle where the Html helper starts to be “alive” ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I tried a lot of things, like partial views, RazorEngine, … and a wrapping to EditorForModel().

In my own EditorForModel() I wrapped a call to the original EditorForModel() and before to call it, I setted in ViewData a referece to Html helper. In my template I can recover the Html helper from ViewData, and all worked well, without to use stubs in all my views.