How do you convert a Razor view to a string?

Question

I would like to use my Razor view as some kind of template for sending emails, so I would like to \"save\" my template in a view, read it into controller as a string, do some ne

Answer 1

Take a look at the RazorEngine library, which does exactly what you want. I've used it before for email templates, and it works great.

You can just do something like this:

// Read in your template from anywhere (database, file system, etc.)
var bodyTemplate = GetEmailBodyTemplate();

// Substitute variables using Razor
var model = new { Name = "John Doe", OtherVar = "Hello!" };
var emailBody = Razor.Parse(bodytemplate, model);

// Send email
SendEmail(address, emailBody);