Static View Renderings in Sitecore 6.6

I was wondering if there was any way to statically call a View Rendering similarly to how you would call a sublayout using the following web forms code:

<sc:Sublayout Path="~/sublayouts/samplesublayouts.ascx" DataSource="SomeItemId" runat="server" />

I've tried doing this:

@Html.Sitecore().ViewRendering("~/renderings/samplerendering.cshtml", new { DataSource= "SomeItemId"})

But I can't strongly type the view rendering unless I also create the rendering item in sitecore and the also create the model item in sitecore because I'll receive and error. I'd like to know if there is a similarly simple manner I could use with MVC for statically typing internal renderers.

The approach shown below allows razor views to be statically bound to presentation items without creating rendering items.

In the layout.cshtml file statically bind a razor view that doesn't have a View Rendering presentation item in Sitecore and specify a DataSource item:

@Html.Sitecore().ViewRendering("/views/StandaloneRendering.cshtml", new { DataSource = "/sitecore/content/Home/My Datasource Item" })

The StandaloneRendering.cshtml razor view looks like this:

@using Sitecore.Mvc.Presentation
@model RenderingModel

@functions
{
    public Sitecore.Data.Items.Item Item 
    { 
        get
        {
            var item = Sitecore.Context.Item;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.Rendering.DataSource))
            {
                item = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem(Model.Rendering.DataSource);
            }
            return item;
        }
    }
}   

<p>Item  Name: @Model.PageItem.Name</p>    
<p>Datasource Path: @Model.Rendering.DataSource</p>    
<p>Datasource Item Name: @Item.Name</p>
<p>Datasource Item Path: @Item.Paths.FullPath</p>
<p>Datasource Item Template: @Item.TemplateName</p>

The following gets output on the page:

Item Name: Home

Datasource Path: /sitecore/content/Home/My Datasource Item

Datasource Item Name: My Datasource Item

Datasource Item Path: /sitecore/content/Home/My Datasource Item

Datasource Item Template: Sample Item

A couple of things to be aware of when doing this:

1. The Sitecore fields being rendered out by the razor view are not editable in the Page Editor.
2. I doubt very much that the StandaloneRendering.cshtml output will make it into the Sitecore HTML cache.
3. The Item property in the @functions block should be moved to some where so that it can be reused across multiple razor views.
4. It's a non-standard approach. This may confuse some folks who expect to find an associated rendering item in Sitecore.