Capturing HTML to String in MVC2.0

Question

I am new to MVC2.0. I use the below code to capture HTML and return it as a string. But this works fine in MVC1.0 and .NET 3.5 framework. Recently I upgraded the code to .NET 4.

Answer 1

Thanks for reviewing.. I found it myself.. silly me!! its just simple thing.. Here is the full code..

public static string CaptureActionHtml<TController>(this Controller controller, TController targetController, string masterPageName, Func<TController, ViewResult>  action) where TController : Controller

       {
    if (controller == null)
    {
    throw new ArgumentNullException("controller");
    }
    if (targetController == null)
    {
    throw new ArgumentNullException("targetController");
    }
    if (action == null)
    {
    throw new ArgumentNullException("action");
    }
    // pass the current controller context to orderController
    var controllerContext = controller.ControllerContext;
    targetController.ControllerContext = controllerContext;

    // replace the current context with a new context that writes to a string writer
    var existingContext = HttpContext.Current;
    var writer = new StringWriter();
    var response = new HttpResponse(writer);
    var context = new HttpContext(existingContext.Request, response) { User = existingContext.User };
    HttpContext.Current = context;

    // execute the action
    var viewResult = action(targetController);

    // change the master page name
    if (masterPageName != null)
    {
    viewResult.MasterName = masterPageName;
    }

    // we have to set the controller route value to the name of the controller we want to execute
    // because the ViewLocator class uses this to find the correct view
    var oldController = controllerContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
    controllerContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = typeof(TController).Name.Replace("Controller", "");

    // execute the result
    viewResult.ExecuteResult(controllerContext);

    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    var xx = targetController.TempData["pdf"];
    //var viewContext = new ViewContext(controllerContext, viewResult.View, new ViewDataDictionary(targetController.ViewData.Model), new TempDataDictionary(), sw);
    var viewContext = new ViewContext(controllerContext, viewResult.View, viewResult.ViewData, new TempDataDictionary(), sw);
    viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, HttpContext.Current.Response.Output);
    response.Flush();

    // restore the old route data
    controllerContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = oldController;

    // restore the old context
    HttpContext.Current = existingContext;

    return sw.ToString();
    } 

I just replaced this line of code

var viewContext = new ViewContext(controllerContext, viewResult.View, new ViewDataDictionary(targetController.ViewData.Model), new TempDataDictionary(), sw);

with

var viewContext = new ViewContext(controllerContext, viewResult.View, viewResult.ViewData, new TempDataDictionary(), sw);

It works fine.. Cheers!!