Question

If the the user is not using javascript, I will refresh the view with a RedirectToAction after an IsAjaxRequest check. This works when I have a user contrl in the page and return partial view.

BUt when I just want to return a value, say int, and also still want to use RedirectToAction when not an ajax request, how do i set up the method in the controller?

public ActionResult…

(if ajax request) Return View (new{value=5})?  (if not) redirecttoAction ('view'); 

not working.

Answer 1

You need to use the JsonResult.

if (IsAjaxRequest()) {     return Json(new { value = 5 }); } else {     return RedirectToAction('parentAction'); } 

It will serialize the anonymous object in to a JSON result. Or if you really want to just return an ‘int’, which isn’t really common AJAX you should use the ContentResult.