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Shared by by Pronet components. 

I like its simplicity but yet the power it can gives developers.

I prefer to attached it to the post.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;

public class Render
{
	public static string RenderControl(System.Web.UI.Control control) 
	{
		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(1024);
		control.RenderControl(new HtmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(result)));
		return result.ToString();
	}
	public static string RenderControl(System.Web.UI.TemplateControl control) 
	{
		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(1024);
		control.RenderControl(new HtmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(result)));
		return result.ToString();
	}
	public static string RenderPage(string pageLocation)
	{
		System.Web.HttpContext context = System.Web.HttpContext.Current;
		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(1024);
		context.Server.Execute(pageLocation, new HtmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(result)));
		return result.ToString();
	}
}

Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.UI

Public Class Render
	Public Shared Function RenderControl(ByVal control As System.Web.UI.Control) As String
		Dim result As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder(1024)
		control.RenderControl(New HtmlTextWriter(New StringWriter(result)))
		Return result.ToString()
	End Function
	Public Shared Function RenderControl(ByVal control As System.Web.UI.TemplateControl) As String
		Dim result As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder(1024)
		control.RenderControl(New HtmlTextWriter(New StringWriter(result)))
		Return result.ToString()
	End Function
	Public Shared Function RenderPage(ByVal pageLocation As String) As String
		Dim context As System.Web.HttpContext = System.Web.HttpContext.Current
		Dim result As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder(1024)
		context.Server.Execute(pageLocation, New HtmlTextWriter(New StringWriter(result)))
		Return result.ToString()
	End Function
End Class