Question

I want to be able to get the result that the ActionResult will generate directly in my controller for debugging purposes. How do I do that?

Something like:

public ActionResult Parts(string id)
{
    var parts = _repository.GetParts(id);
    var action = Json(parts);

    var generatedJson = XXXXX;

    return action;
}

Answer 1

For debugging purposes you definitely want to use a debugging tool such as FireBug or Fiddler, but if you insist pollutingmodifying your source code when in Debug mode you could take a look at the JavaScriptSerializer class (which is internally used by the JsonResult class):

var generatedJson = new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(parts);