Composable services with ASP.NET WebApi…sort of

A while ago I had blogged about Service Composition using ServiceStack and MEF. With ServiceStack no longer free, I figured I’d try the same thing using ASP.NET Web Api from Big Mike. The result was…not as good.

rendering view as a string

I can’t remember who the original writer of this code was, so forgive me for plagiarizing. As part of a project I’m involved in (see previous post), I needed to output a rendered html partial view so as to append to a div element. Here’s the code that helped me achieve this.

	protected string RenderPartialViewToString(string viewName, object model)
	{
	if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
	viewName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
	ViewData.Model = model;
	using (var sw = new StringWriter())
	{
	var viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);
	var viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
	viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
	return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
	}
	}

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I hope it helps.