How do I use Razor to create an HTML string from a view suitable for email?

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The answers I've found so far seem to indicate that whatever is in the System.Web.... namespaces, you cannot access whatever is necessary to say "here's a view and model, give me the HTML."

Instead, people point to RazorEngine or MvcMailer.

Really? I can't access the parsing engine without going to some third party utility??? I find that hard to believe.

Posted 10-Nov-14 9:04am

Marc Clifton

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Valery Possoz · Answer 1 · 2014-11-10T12:41:00

Hello,

I think it is possible...

Create a new partial view and a matching new layout.

In the partial view use the layout

HTML

@model Myapp.EmailModel
@{
  Layout="~/Views/Shared/Email_layout.cshtml"
}

in the layoiut, render the partial view...

HTML

<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Email</title>
</head>
<body>
        @RenderBody()        
</body>
</html>

now you can use this with @Html.Partial anywhere you like..

@Html.Partial("EmaillView", emailModel)

Valery.