How to Render Partial View into a String
- by DaveDev
Hi all, I have the following code:
public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    return new JsonpResult
    {
        Data = new { Widget = "some partial html for the widget" }
    };
}
I'd like to modify it so that I could have
public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    // will render HTML that I can pass to the JSONP result to return.
    var partial = RenderPartial(viewModel); 
    return new JsonpResult
    {
        Data = new { Widget = partial }
    };
}
is this possible? Could somebody explain how?
note, I edited the question before posting the solution.