How can I render a html page using spark and MVC?

Question

I'm trying to render a plain html view using Spark and MVC but I obtain the following error:

The view 'Principal.html' or its master could not be found. The following locations were searched: 
~/Views/Site/Principal.html.aspx 
~/Views/Site/Principal.html.ascx 
~/Views/Shared/Principal.html.aspx 
~/Views/Shared/Principal.html.ascx 
Site\Principal.html.spark 
Shared\Principal.html.spark

In my controller i have:

 public ViewResult Principal()
   { 
      return View("Principal.html");
   }

I register the spark engina in my Global.asax, Start method

protected override void Start()
{
    ...
    RegisterViewEngine(ViewEngines.Engines, RouteTable.Routes);
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);            
}

 private void RegisterViewEngine(ViewEngineCollection engines, RouteCollection routes)
 {
    SparkViewFactory engine = new SparkViewFactory();            
    RegisterFactory.DefaultRegister(IoCService.MyContainer, engine, routes);
    engines.Add(engine);
 }

How can I indicate that the page to render is html (Principal.html) and NOT spark extension?

Thanks in advance!

Yes, it's static html and it's the initial page of the site. But in because of my proyect configuration I need to render the page through the controller...Thanks! — Cintia, Oct 02 '13 at 13:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 12:58

If you rename Principal.html to Principal.spark or Principal.html.spark that should fix it.

Spark doesn't know that it should be looking for .html files to render. I wouldn't recommend telling Spark to handle all .html files, but if you really want to, then you can implement your own Custom IDescriptorFilterimplementation to change the way that Spark locates views - but like I said, I wouldn't recommend it - I woud rather just rename .html files to .spark that you want Spark to pick up

Is there a reason you cannot rename your html file extensions?

How can I render a html page using spark and MVC?

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