ASP.NET MVC Reading Files from the Server

Question

I have 3 questions:

• Where is the location for some template files? I will use these templates to render emails with DotLiquid . I'm thinking of just having it in ~/Templates/.
• How do I unit test this? Should I even unit test read files from the file system?
• Best way to read a file in a line?

Answer 1

• I would make a browsing folder /Views/Emailspossible for them
• Unit test code you are writing, not code from the .NET framework imo
• string s = System.IO.File.ReadAllText( path );

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Placing the code in ~ / Content / Templates / and loading the content using the web client worked best for me.

var welcomeMailTemplatePath = "yourPath";
var webClient = new WebClient();
string html = webClient.DownloadString(WelcomeMailTemplatePath); 

This way you do not need to deal with controllers / views and can directly capture the contents of a template file.