Here, this is what I use in Controllers for ajax, I modified it a bit so it can be called from method instead of controller, method returnView
renders your view and returns HTML string so you can insert it with JS/jQuery into your page when you recive it on client side:
public static string RenderPartialToString(string view, object model, ControllerContext Context)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(view))
{
view = Context.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
}
ViewDataDictionary ViewData = new ViewDataDictionary();
TempDataDictionary TempData = new TempDataDictionary();
ViewData.Model = model;
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
{
ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(Context, view);
ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(Context, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
}
}
//"Error" should be name of the partial view, I was just testing with partial error view
//You can put whichever controller you want instead of HomeController it will be the same
//You can pass model instead of null
private string returnView()
{
var controller = new HomeController();
controller.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext(HttpContext,new System.Web.Routing.RouteData(), controller);
return RenderPartialToString("Error", null, new ControllerContext(controller.Request.RequestContext, controller));
}
I didn’t test it on a Hub but it should work.