I use a static method in a class I called Utilities.Common I pass views back to the client as properties of JSON objects constantly so I had a need to render them to a string. Here ya go: public static string RenderPartialViewToString ( Controller controller , string viewName , object model ) { controller . ViewData . Model = model ; using ( StringWriter sw = new StringWriter ()) { ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines . Engines . FindPartialView ( controller . ControllerContext , viewName ); ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext ( controller . ControllerContext , viewResult . View , controller . ViewData , controller . TempData , sw ); viewResult . View . Render ( viewContext , sw ); return sw . ToString (); } } This will work for full views as well as partial views, just change ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView to ViewEngines.Engines.FindView . FindView ne...