You cannot pass a collection of complex objects in urls when redirecting. One possibility would be to use TempData: TempData[“list”] = fadd.ToList(); return RedirectToAction(“Question”, new { email = email}); and then inside the Question action: var model = TempData[“list”] as List<QuestionClass.Tablefields>;
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
At last I figured it out!! Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I finally figured out the best solution is to pass JSON via the Http Post and use a custom ModelBinder to convert the JSON to a Dictionary. One thing I did in my solution is created a JsonDictionary object that inherits from Dictionary so … 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”);
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