Question

In my controller class I return some data to my view and it’s all good.

Can i do something like this?

    public ActionResult List()
    {
        while (true)
        { 

            Thread.Sleep(3000);

            return View("ListStatus", data);
        }

    }

Of course the above code won’t work as when the return statement is ran the function exists.

I’m sure i can use some Ajax in the View itself to pull data up from the server every 3 second but for my current purpose it would just be easier to do what i’m attempting in the above code

Answer 1

Use meta tag <meta http-equiv="refresh" in your header, if you want to refresh the whole page.

Use jquery solution, if you want to refresh parts of the page.
Auto-refreshing div with jQuery – setTimeout or another method?
http://dev.kafol.net/2008/10/jquery-update-divs-html-dynamically.html
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax