If you’re sure that it is a type of OkObjectResult then cast before using it like below: var result3 = (OkObjectResult)result.Result; // <– Cast is before using it. var result4 = result3.Value; //<– Then you’ll get no error here.
Check this out : public ActionResult Index() { return new FilePathResult(“~/Html/index.htm”, “text/html”); }
You need to return a view which has a friendly error message to the user catch (Exception ex) { // to do :log error return View(“Error”); } You should not be showing the internal details of your exception(like exception stacktrace etc) to the user. You should be logging the relevant information to your error log … Read more
If anyone is in the situation I was in, where your image controller actually needs read only access to the session, you can put the SessionState attribute on your controller [SessionState(SessionStateBehavior.ReadOnly)] See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.sessionstateattribute.aspx for more info. Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/4235006/372926
You could use return this.Content(xmlString, “text/xml”); to return a built XML string from an action.
You can absolutely use specific return types, even though most examples on the web seems to return the ActionResult. The only time I would return the ActionResult class is when different paths of the action method returns different subtypes. Steven Sanderson also recommends returning specific types in his book Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. Take a … Read more
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”);