Action Result In MVC

By default, the Controller actions will return the ActionResult object.We can return various types of results as ActionResult, which will decide how the output needs to render on the browser.

Below table shows the various ActionResult.

Name	Framework Behavior	Producing Method	Example
Contract Result	Returns a string literal	Content	Content(“nilesh”)
Empty Result	No Response
FileContentResult/FilepathResult/ FileStreamResult	Return the contents of file	File	File(Server.MapPath(“~/Content/site.css”,”text/css”)
RedirectResult	Redirects the client to a new URL	Redirect	RedirectParmanent(“http://nileshviradiya.blogspot.com”)
RedirectToRouteResult	Redirect to another action, or another controller’s action	RedirectToRoute/ RedirecttoAction	RedirectToAction(“index”,”home”,new {name=name }) RedirectToRoute(“Default”, new {controller=”home”,action=”about”})
ViewResult PartialViewResult	Response is the responsibility of a view engine	View/PartialView
JsonResult	Returns data in JSON format	Json	Json(new { Message=”test”, Name =”nilesh”}, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
JavaScriptResult	Returns a script to execute.	Javascript
HttpUnauthorizedResult	Returns an HTTP 403 status