Can I run a ASPX and grep the result without making HTTP request?

Question

How can I just make a function call, without URL, and without HTTP, to a simple ASP.NET file, and capture the byte stream it generated?

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Answer 1

This sounds like a very similar issue which is generating HTML emails on a server. There are some answers here that do that (for MVC):

ASP.NET MVC: How to send an html email using a controller?

You can proceed in a similar fashion for non-MVC by loading and rendering a control (ASCX) to a file.