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Asked: 2026-05-13T05:41:10+00:00

Is there an ASP.NET MVC controller or helper class that can automatically return the

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Is there an ASP.NET MVC controller or helper class that can automatically return the proper HTTP response based on the HTTP request header? I’d like it to be able to return JSON, XML, or a View based on the request’s content type, with the only thing I have to do is populate some global Model object with data from the database.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out this article – you can do it using action filters:

    The following is a filter which makes
    the whole thing much cleaner. The
    filter looks for Content-Type headers
    in the HTTP request. If it matches
    text/xml then Plain Old XML (POX) is
    returned and if it matches
    application/json the output is JSON.

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