Question

Is is possible to use Actionmailer.Net.Standalone in a console application? I keep getting an error that:

Could not find any CSHTML or VBHTML views named [CRD.html.cshtml] in the path [EmailTemplates]. Ensure that you specify the format in the file name (ie: CRD.html.cshtml.txt.cshtml or CRD.html.cshtml.html.cshtml)

Code

    public class Mailer : RazorMailerBase
{
    public override string ViewPath
    {
        get { return "EmailTemplates"; }
    }

    public RazorEmailResult Processed(string f)
    {

        From = group;
        To.Add(user);
        Subject = "CRD Process Server has processed file: " + f;
        return Email("CRD.html.cshtml");
    }
}

Do I need to implement a RazorViewEngine somewhere since it isn’t standard with a console application?

Answer 1

There is a open source project as a general templating engine called RazorEngine

A templating engine built upon Microsoft’s Razor parsing technology.
The RazorEngine allows you to use Razor syntax to build robust
templates.

Simply;

string template = "Hello @Model.Name! Welcome to Razor!";
string result = Razor.Parse(template, new { Name = "World" });

Also available in NuGet;

Install-Package RazorEngine