Render Razor View into String using .Net Core Console Application - asp.net-core

Question

I have prepared a .net core console application (Framework version .Net Core 2.2) for sending email as a service. Right now its working completely fine with static html content being hardcoded into service method for generating email body string.
I am in seek of the code which provides me a solution to render a razor view to have a html string with the model data.
Tried to implement the RazorEngine dll in entity framework ver. 4.5. with below code
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using GenerateEmailUsingRazor.Model;
using RazorEngine.Templating;
namespace GenerateEmailUsingRazor
{
class Program
{
static readonly string TemplateFolderPath = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "EmailTemplates");
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var model = GetUserDetail();
var emailTemplatePath = Path.Combine(TemplateFolderPath, "InviteEmailTemplate.cshtml");
var templateService = new TemplateService();
var emailHtmlBody = templateService.Parse(File.ReadAllText(emailTemplatePath), model, null, null);
Console.WriteLine(emailHtmlBody);
Console.ReadLine();
}
private static UserDetail GetUserDetail()
{
var model = new UserDetail()
{
Id = 1,
Name = "Test User",
Address = "Dummy Address"
};
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
model.PurchasedItems.Add("Item No " + i);
}
return model;
}
}
}
Expected Result:
Console Application should render the razor view and provide me the resultant html string.

Answer 1

I've written a clean library Razor.Templating.Core that works with .NET Core 3.0, 3.1 on both web and console app.
It's available as NuGet package.
After installing, you can call like
var htmlString = await RazorTemplateEngine
.RenderAsync("/Views/ExampleView.cshtml", model, viewData);
Note: Above snippet won't work straight away. Please refer the below working guidance on how to apply it.
Complete Working Guidance: https://medium.com/#soundaranbu/render-razor-view-cshtml-to-string-in-net-core-7d125f32c79
Sample Projects: https://github.com/soundaranbu/RazorTemplating/tree/master/examples