Where are the ControllerContext and ViewEngines properties in MVC 6 Controller?

The released dotnet core 1.0 has changed, this version of the above code works with 1.0 RTM.

protected string RenderPartialViewToString(string viewName, object model) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName)) viewName = ControllerContext.ActionDescriptor.DisplayName; ViewData.Model = model; using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter()) { var engine = _serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ICompositeViewEngine)) as ICompositeViewEngine; // Resolver.GetService(typeof(ICompositeViewEngine)) as ICompositeViewEngine; ViewEngineResult viewResult = engine.FindView(ControllerContext, viewName, false); ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext( ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw, new HtmlHelperOptions() //Added this parameter in ); //Everything is async now! var t = viewResult.View.RenderAsync(viewContext); t.Wait(); return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString(); } } 

These usings are required for this code to compile:

using System.IO; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewEngines; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures; 

I also had to add a DI interfaces to the controller constructor:

IServiceProvider serviceProvider 

My account constructor looks like this now:

public AccountController( UserManager<ApplicationUser> userManager, SignInManager<ApplicationUser> signInManager, IEmailSender emailSender, ISmsSender smsSender, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) { _userManager = userManager; _signInManager = signInManager; _emailSender = emailSender; _smsSender = smsSender; _logger = loggerFactory.CreateLogger<AccountController>(); _serviceProvider = serviceProvider; } 

Solution by Martin Tomes works well. My changes: removed serviceProvider and get ICompositeViewEngine in constructor via DI. Constructor looks like:

private readonly ICompositeViewEngine _viewEngine; public AccountController( UserManager<ApplicationUser> userManager, SignInManager<ApplicationUser> signInManager, IEmailSender emailSender, ISmsSender smsSender, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory, ICompositeViewEngine viewEngine) { _userManager = userManager; _signInManager = signInManager; _emailSender = emailSender; _smsSender = smsSender; _logger = loggerFactory.CreateLogger<AccountController>(); _viewEngine = viewEngine;; } 

and put

ViewEngineResult viewResult = _viewEngine.FindView(ControllerContext, viewName, false); 

instead of

var engine = _serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(ICompositeViewEngine)) as ICompositeViewEngine; // Resolver.GetService(typeof(ICompositeViewEngine)) as ICompositeViewEngine; ViewEngineResult viewResult = engine.FindView(ControllerContext, viewName, false); 

The solution provided by Martin Tomes worked for me but I had to replace:

ViewEngineResult viewResult = engine.FindView(ControllerContext, viewName, false); 

with

ViewEngineResult viewResult = engine.GetView(_env.WebRootPath, viewName, false); 

Also in controller constructor had to add

private IHostingEnvironment _env; public AccountController(IHostingEnvironment env) { _env = env; } 

The solution provided by DavidG worked fine but I change it to a independent service.

namespace WebApplication.Services { public interface IViewRenderService { Task<string> RenderPartialViewToString(Controller Controller, string viewName, object model); } public class ViewRenderService: IViewRenderService { private readonly ICompositeViewEngine _viewEngine; public ViewRenderService(ICompositeViewEngine viewEngine) { _viewEngine = viewEngine; } public async Task<string> RenderPartialViewToString(Controller Controller, string viewName, object model) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName)) viewName = Controller.ControllerContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName; Controller.ViewData.Model = model; using (var writer = new StringWriter()) { ViewEngineResult viewResult = _viewEngine.FindView(Controller.ControllerContext, viewName, false); ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext( Controller.ControllerContext, viewResult.View, Controller.ViewData, Controller.TempData, writer, new HtmlHelperOptions() ); await viewResult.View.RenderAsync(viewContext); return writer.GetStringBuilder().ToString(); } } } } 

Add service to startup:

services.AddScoped<IViewRenderService, ViewRenderService>(); 

Now use dependency injection like this:

public class MyController : Controller { private readonly IViewRenderService _viewRender; public MyController(IViewRenderService viewRender) { _viewRender = viewRender; } //Rest of the controller code here } 

Now you can use it in action methode like this:

var renderedView = await_viewRender.RenderPartialViewToString(this,"nameofview", model);