How can I tell if my action is being called by RenderAction?

Question

I have an action that could potentially be called via a normal link, in which case I\'d return a View(), or it could also be called via AJAX or RenderAction (ie as a Child Actio

Answer 1

You were almost there:

public ActionResult Foo()
{
    if (Request.IsAjaxRequest() || ControllerContext.IsChildAction)
    {
        return PartialView();
    }
    return View();
}