In my AJAX call, I want to return a string value back to the calling page.
Should I use ActionResult
or just return a string?
You can just use the ContentResult
to return a plain string:
public ActionResult Temp() {
return Content("Hi there!");
}
ContentResult
by default returns a text/plain
as its contentType. This is overloadable so you can also do:
return Content("<xml>This is poorly formatted xml.</xml>", "text/xml");