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Scott Dietrich
Scott Dietrich

Reputation: 686

dynamically create partial view (CSHTML)

Is it possible in ASP.NET MVC 5 to dynamically create a partial view (cshtml) in the /Views/Shared directory? I have a situation where people are going to upload a bunch of HTML as strings and was thinking it would be better for performance to store them on the file system.

Is it as simple as creating a new file, steaming a string and saving?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3374

Answers (3)

Sapnandu
Sapnandu

Reputation: 642

I had a requirement to create top menu which will generate from DB. I tried a lot to create it using partial view. But i found most of the cases partial view is use for static content. at last i fond some helpful tutorial please find the following i hope it will help you too.

click here to see how to create Dynamic Partial view

Upvotes: 0

Ehsan Samani
Ehsan Samani

Reputation: 160

Quick Answer: No (you cannot/should not modify Views Folder at RunTime.)

ASP.NET MVC Views and Shared Views are meant to be compiled and run. Modifying them or Adding new ones as the Application is running is not at all advisable or practical.

What would make more sense is for you to store the uploaded html blobs in a database, file system, storage blob (cloud). Then code your Shared View or Specific Views to retrieve specific html blobs from the stored location depending upon which user is logged in.

There are a whole lot of Extension Functions in MVC that Enable you to insert partial html in views. take a look at PartialExtensions as an starting point.

Upvotes: 0

AmmarCSE
AmmarCSE

Reputation: 30557

Yes it is possible

Simply make a view like DynamicView.cshtml

@model DynamicView
@Html.Raw(Model.HTMLString)

Now the method you will use to store both the HTML and the pointer to it is a different story. You can either store the sanitized HTML in a data-base and retrieve it with a call to the Controller like

public ActionResult DynamicView(ind id)
{
DynamicView model = new DynamicView();
DynamicView.HTMLString = dbContext.HTMLViews.Where(v => v.id == id);

return View(model);
}

If you wish to write the submitted HTML to files instead, you can instead do 

public ActionResult DynamicView(string filePath)
{
DynamicView model = new DynamicView();
DynamicView.HTMLString = ...code that reads file

return View(model);
}

See this related post Writing/outputting HTML strings unescaped

Upvotes: 1

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