Rendering a view to a string in ASP.NET MVC 2
- by Frank Rosario
We need to render an ActionResult to a string to add pages to our internal search engine index. We settled on this solution to render to string.
I've run into a problem with the ExecuteResult call used to process the View.
Code Snippet:
var oldController = controllerContext.RouteData.Values["controller"];
controllerContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] =
typeof(TController).Name.Replace("Controller", "");
viewResult.ExecuteResult(controllerContext); // this line breaks
I receive the following error:
"Object reference not set to instance of object" error.
I've confirmed viewResult is not null, so the exception has to be thrown internally in ExecuteResult.
What could we be missing?
