ASP.net MVC: Getting a Partial View's HTML from inside of the controller

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Published on 2008-11-13T02:53:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 7:24 UTC
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I have developed a simple mechanism for my mvc website to pull in html via jquery which then populates a specified div. All is well and it looks cool.
My problem is that i'm now creating html markup inside of my controller (Which is very easy to do in VB.net btw) I'd rather not mix up the sepparation of concerns.

Is it possible to use a custom 'MVC View User Control' to suit this need? Can I create an instance of a control, pass in the model data and render to html? It would then be a simple matter of rendering and passing back to the calling browser.

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