TagBuilder InnerHtml in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6

Question

It seems to me that there are major breaking changes in TagBuilder as of beta7 with no mention about them in the announcements repo.

Specifically .ToString no longer ren

Answer 1

Building on @Mihai's answer to show the actual code for the StringWriter approach:

// Create tag builder
var builder = new TagBuilder("img");
//...
// Render tag approach also changed in .NetCore
builder.TagRenderMode = TagRenderMode.SelfClosing;

//Create the StringWriter and make TagBuilder "WriteTo" it
var stringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter();
builder.WriteTo(stringWriter, HtmlEncoder.Default);
var tagBuilderIsFinallyAStringNow = stringWriter.ToString();