Question

Let’s say i have 2 files located in the same folder.

/Test/View.cshtml

<h1>File that needs to be loaded in to a string</h1>

/Test/Content.cs

public class Content {
    public string GetView()
    {
        Return View("/Test/View.cshtml",someModel)
    }
}

It should not cair about the RouteData from Web.Config

The point of doing this is, so that i am able to retrieve the GetView and use it elsewhere.

I know this question and approch is wierd but i am in a uniq situation developeing a CMS system, so i really need something like this.

How could i achieve this :)?

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Update: Explanation

_Layout.cshtml

This file has no RenderBody as it normally has. Instead it has different Areas like this one.

@{
    Render r = new Render("Content");
}
@r.Print()

Each area are printing out different modules, fx: a newsletter or a gallery. And for that to be possible this is done:

public interface IModule
{
    string Name { get; set; }
    int Id { get; set; }
    string View();
}


public class ModuleList
{
    public List<IModule> Modules = new List<IModule>();

    public ModuleList()
    {
        Modules.Add(new ContentView() { Name = "Content" });
        Modules.Add(new GalleryView() { Name = "Gallery" });
        Modules.Add(new NewsletterView() { Name = "Newsletter" });
    }
}

And here is is the ContentView Class (One of many Modules)

public class ContentView: IModule
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }

    DbModulesDataContext db = new DbModulesDataContext();

    public string View()
    {
        var q = (from c in db.mContents
                 where c.Id == Id
                 select c).FirstOrDefault();
        return ("<h1>"+q.Html+"</h1>");
    }
}

As you can see right now the html is inline with the c# but i want it the other way around. (i want the View() to work together with a cshtml file)

Does it make a little more sence now?

Answer 1

I finaly found my solution!

It’s right there!
http://razorengine.codeplex.com/

Thank you for trying though 🙂