title: How can I simply parse a stand-alone razor template and use the output as an email body in c#?
body: <p>I've looked at a dozen or so ways to do this and I'm having a very hard time getting things to work. The issues I've run into fall into one of two categories:</p>
  
  <p>1) A full MVC setup is assumed in the examples I'm looking at. In my case, I'm sending an email from a WebApi project and will not be using any of the pre-wired MVC view functionality provided by the ASP.NET project stub.</p>
  
  <p>2) Libraries are asking for some complex setup I don't really think I need, specifically RazorEngine asking me to set up a TemplateManager, when all I need to do is give a .cshtml file a model and get the parsed results back.</p>
  
  <p>Pardon the noob question; I'm working on my first .NET project here. Thanks!</p>