title: Partial View to String in MVC 3
body: <p>Searching around I haven't found any recent answers to this question.</p>
  
  <p>The other answers I have found focus on versions 1 &amp; 2 of the MVC framework.</p>
  
  <p>Now with MVC 3, is there a simple way to execute and return a partial view as a string or should we still be implimenting our own solution? as can be found in other answers such as: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4344533/asp-net-mvc-razor-how-to-render-a-razor-partial-views-html-inside-the-controlle">ASP.NET MVC Razor: How to render a Razor Partial View&#39;s HTML inside the controller action</a> </p>
  
  <p>(note that the article presented in the accepted answer refers to MVC 2).</p>