Hi

I am in the process of moving an Intranet from Umbraco 4.x to Umbraco 5 - MVC 3.

My old solution is built on a whole bunch of Jquery and Ajax loading.
All the data loading in the old solution is done through .ashx handlers that are beeing called by Jquery, to return JSON objects.

I have proted all my old handlers to controllers, and are down to one problematic devil :-D

In the old solution I have a handler, that are able to take the name/path of a usercontrol as input, and then load this control, and return the HTML, to be injected into a Jquery popup window.

The code for rendering looks like this:

        private static UserControl LoadControl(string UserControlPath, params object[] constructorParameters)

        {

            Page pageHolder = new Page();

            List<Type> constParamTypes = new List<Type>();

            foreach (object constParam in constructorParameters)

            {

                constParamTypes.Add(constParam.GetType());

            }

            UserControl ctl = pageHolder.LoadControl(UserControlPath) as UserControl;

            // Find the relevant constructor

            ConstructorInfo constructor = ctl.GetType().BaseType.GetConstructor(constParamTypes.ToArray());

            //And then call the relevant constructor

            if (constructor == null)

            {

                throw new MemberAccessException("The requested constructor was not found on : " + ctl.GetType().BaseType.ToString());

            }

            else

            {

                constructor.Invoke(ctl, constructorParameters);

            }

            // Finally return the fully initialized UC

            return ctl;

        }

It work very well in Umbraco 4.x.

In Umbraco 5 I am trying to do something similar with Partial Views.....BUT GRRRRRRR - what ever I do I get an unhandled Exception like this:

I am trying to do the following:

 public PartialViewResult AddCompany()

        {

            string ReturnContent = RenderPartialViewToString("AddCompany", null);

            return PartialView(ReturnContent);

        }

        protected string RenderPartialViewToString(string viewName, object model)

        {

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
                viewName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");

            ViewData.Model = model;

            using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())

            {

                ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);

                ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);

                viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);

                return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();

            }

        }

AddCompany is just a static test partial view.

Can someone please enlighten me on this issue???

I am kind of stuck here.

/Christian