If I look at the Razor View Engine, then I see a very nice and concise syntax that is not particularly tied to generating html. So I wonder, how easy would it be to use the engine outside asp.net in a "normal" .net environment for example to generate text, code,...
Any pointer, example, comment or explanation is welcome.
Its May 2022 and I kissed a few frogs before finding this blog: https://soundaranbu.medium.com/render-razor-view-cshtml-to-string-in-net-core-7d125f32c79
VERY easy to use along with a .Net Core Razor Class Library (RCL) and this small library: RazorTemplating
using Razor.Templating.Core;
var model = new ExampleModel()
{
PlainText = "This text is rendered from Razor Views using Razor.Templating.Core",
HtmlContent = "<em>You can use it to generate email content, report generation and so on</em>"
};
// Both ViewBag and ViewData should be added to the same dictionary.
var viewDataOrViewBag = new Dictionary<string, object>();
// ViewData is same as mvc
viewDataOrViewBag["Value1"] = "1";
// ViewBag.Value2 can be written as below. There's no change on how it's accessed in .cshtml file
viewDataOrViewBag["Value2"] = "2";
var html = await RazorTemplateEngine.RenderAsync("/Views/ExampleView.cshtml", model, viewDataOrViewBag);