Question

I see there is a question here but there is no definite answer. Has anyone any ideas how to return a PartialView with Javascript or JSON. I am doing an AJAX post, on success it renders the PartialView but then needs to run some javascript or check the JSON result.

Answer 1

public static string RenderPartialToString(string controlName, object viewData, object model, System.Web.Routing.RequestContext viewContext)
            {

                ViewDataDictionary vd = new ViewDataDictionary(viewData);
                ViewPage vp = new ViewPage { ViewData = vd };

                vp.ViewData = vd;
                vp.ViewData.Model = model;
                vp.ViewContext = new ViewContext();
                vp.Url = new UrlHelper(viewContext);

                Control control = vp.LoadControl(controlName);

                vp.Controls.Add(control);

                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

                using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb))
                {

                    using (HtmlTextWriter tw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw))
                    {

                        vp.RenderControl(tw);

                    }

                }

                return sb.ToString();

            }