I'm trying to use RazorGenerator as an email template engine. I want to take a model with the data, assemble the correct set of partial views, and return HTML that I can email out.
Edit: In addition to this workflow, any solution would need to be editable as a .cshtml file and be able to be compiled into a dll. For various reasons, it is not practical to deploy the cshtml files themselves - if we can't embed all our razor views into a single file, then we can't use that suggestion. Hence RazorGenerator.
So far, I've worked out every part of it, except for the partials. When I try to use @Html.Partial() in a template file, I get: The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context
.
Based on this answer, I know that @Html
isn't part of Razor by default, and there's many answers out there as to how to create a HtmlHelper
in a controller. However, I need to create one in a template, which doesn't have the ControllerContext
that I'd need to follow those examples.
I've also tried using @Include, but the RazorGenerator template doesn't seem to support that. Edit: I also tried creating a new class which inherited from TemplateBase<>
and copied all the functionality of RazorTemplateBase
, but I get NullReferenceException
s on the @Include
line.
So, my primary question is: Is there a better way to include another Razor file (with model) into my file?
Secondarily, if there isn't a better way, how can I get the HtmlHelper created?
Edit for bounty: Just to reiterate, the four things I need in an acceptable answer are:
- The ability to edit
.cshtml
files with the standard editor (no "store it as a string" or such)
- The ability to compile everything into a single dll which can be deployed using our current build system (we can't deploy lots of individual .cshtml's)
- The ability to reference one .cshtml file from another, and pass a model - equivalent to
@Includes
or @Html.Partial
(Either of which are perfectly acceptable if they work)
- The ability to email out the result, with attachments. (I already have code for this, if the result is a string or convertible to one.)
I currently can get most combinations of three of these working, but I can't get all four at once. I'm open to new libraries, replacing RazorGenerator, or throwing out any part of what I already have, so long as the result works as needed.
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