Save dynamically generated HTML page ASP.NET

Question

With ASP.NET MVC, I generated an html page

Example: http://example1234.com/Persons/details/15

Changing the last digit changes the value of the fields which I imported with @HTML helpers

I would like to automatically save this page somewhere to the server, to make it static.

Something like PersonNr15.html with the generated content hardcoded into that page.

      @model MvcApplication3.Models.Person

      @{
      ViewBag.Title = "Details";
      }

      <h2>Details</h2>

     <fieldset>
     <legend>Person</legend>
        <p>@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.FirstName)</p>
        <p>@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.LastName)</p>

      </fieldset>

Answer 1

What you need to do is render the view to a string, and then save the string to a file like you would any other string. The rendering of an MVC view to a string is covered in previously answered questions on here such as This question

Answer 2

I changed my code myself. I used my self-made template, and changed the words like #NAME# After changing the variable words from the file, save the file, make a PDF out of it. and done. (PDF wasn't part of the question, but i added it in for those interested).

    [HttpPost]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public ActionResult Create(Person person)

        datadir = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["datadir"];
        //datadirectory defined in Web.config
        //also possible to hardcode it here, example: "c:/windows/PDFfolder"

        wkhtmltopdf = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["wkhtmltopdf"];
        //directory to the file "wkhtmltopdf", downloaded it somewhere
        //just like above, defined at web.config possible to hardcode it in

        ViewData["IsModelValid"] = ModelState.IsValid ? "true" : "false";
        //valid checker


        if (ModelState.IsValid)      //check if valid
        {                
        db.People.Add(person);       //add to db

            db.SaveChanges();
        var fileContents1 = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(datadir + "Template.html"); 
        //get template from datadirectory
        fileContents1 = fileContents1.Replace("#NAME#", person.Name);
        //replace '#NAME#' by the name from the database table person.Name

       System.IO.File.WriteAllText(datadir + "tmp\\Template." + person.ID + ".html", fileContents1);
       //create a new html page with the replaced text
       //name of the file equals the ID of the person


            var pdf1 = new ProcessStartInfo(wkhtmltopdf); //start process wkhtmltopdf
            pdf1.CreateNoWindow = true;  //don't create a window
            pdf1.UseShellExecute = false; //don't use a shell
            pdf1.WorkingDirectory = datadir + "tmp\\"; //where to create the pdf
            pdf1.Arguments = "-q -n --disable-smart-shrinking Overeenkomst." + person.ID + ".html Overeenkomst." + person.ID + ".pdf";
          //get the html to convert and make a pdf with the same name in the same directory

        }

        return View(person);
    }