RazorEngine and parsing physical view files always causes exception

Question

I have the following RazorEngine call:

public class RazorEngineRender
{
    public static string RenderPartialViewToString(string templatePath, string viewName,          


        

Answer 1

The accepted answer was perfect in 2011 (I believe pre-v3 of RazorEngine) but this code is now marked as obsolete in latest version (in time of typing it is 3.7.3).

For newer version your method can be typed like this:

public static string RenderPartialViewToString(string templatePath, string templateName, string viewName, T model)
        {
            string template = File.ReadAllText(Path.Combine(templatePath, viewName));
            string renderedText = Engine.Razor.RunCompile(template, templateName, typeof(T), model);
            return renderedText;
        }

and in order for it to work you need to add

using RazorEngine.Templating;