I want to send email using old good approach of MVC 2 by converting

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Asked: May 27, 20262026-05-27T06:07:06+00:00 2026-05-27T06:07:06+00:00

I want to send email using old good approach of MVC 2 by converting

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I want to send email using old good approach of MVC 2 by converting code into MVC 3.
But it gives an error here:

            Control control1 = vp1.LoadControl("/Views/Home/_SupportEmailAdmin.cshtml");
            vp1.Controls.Add(control);

The error message:

Type ‘ASP._Page_Views_Home__SupportEmail_cshtml’ does not inherit from ‘System.Web.UI.UserControl’.

Is there a correct way to do it?

Here is the Code:

 ViewBag.SupportRequest = this.SupportRequest;

                    ViewPage vp1 = new ViewPage();
                    vp1.ViewData = ViewData;

                    Control control1 = vp1.LoadControl("/Views/Home/_SupportEmailAdmin.cshtml");
                    vp1.Controls.Add(control);

                    StringBuilder sb1 = new StringBuilder();
                    using (StringWriter sw1 = new StringWriter(sb1))
                    {
                        using (HtmlTextWriter tw1 = new HtmlTextWriter(sw1))
                        {
                            vp1.RenderControl(tw1);
                        }
                    }

                    sb1.Insert(0, @"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd""><html xmlns=""http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml""><body>");
                    sb1.Append("</body></html>");

                    MailMessage msg1 = new MailMessage(new MailAddress(this.SupportRequest.EMail, this.SupportRequest.Name),
                        new MailAddress(from, fromName));
                    msg1.Subject = fromSubject;
                    msg1.IsBodyHtml = true;
                    msg1.Body = sb1.ToString();
                    ....

In two words the question is how to use the MVC 3 page template to render it as text and send it.

UPDATES:

The finial solution…

#region Send Support Request to Admin

                StreamReader streamReader1 = new StreamReader(Server.MapPath("/Views/Home/_SupportEmailAdmin.cshtml"));
                string emailTemplate1 = streamReader1.ReadToEnd();
                streamReader1.Close();

                string result1 = Razor.Parse(emailTemplate1, new { Name = sr.Name, EMail = sr.EMail, Subject = sr.Subject, Message = sr.Message });

                StringBuilder sb1 = new StringBuilder();
                sb1.Insert(0, @"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd""><html xmlns=""http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml""><body>");
                sb1.Append(result);
                sb1.Append("</body></html>");

                MailMessage msg1 = new MailMessage(new MailAddress(sr.EMail, sr.Name),
                    new MailAddress(from, fromName));
                msg1.Subject = fromSubject;
                msg1.IsBodyHtml = true;
                msg1.Body = sb1.ToString();

                #endregion

                smtp.Send(msg1);

and the content of cshtml

file

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
                Name
            </td>
            <td>@Model.Name
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                Email
            </td>
            <td>@Model.EMail
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                Subject
            </td>
            <td>@Model.Subject
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                Message
            </td>
            <td>@Model.Message
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>