How can I return a JSON result to a Ajax.BeginForm

Question

I have got this simple form:

@using (Ajax.BeginForm(\"CreateProductFromAjaxForm\",\"Product\" , 
                  null, 
                  new AjaxOptions() {           


        

Answer 1

JsonResult is just a kind of ActionResult derived class that indicates that this action will return JSON instead of a view or something else.

For example:

 @using (Ajax.BeginForm("CreateProductFromAjaxForm","Product" , null, 
              new AjaxOptions() {  OnSuccess = "getresult" }, null))

This will generate a element which will send an AJAX request when submitted to the action. For this to work you need to include the following script to your page:

Now all that's left is to write this onSuccess javascript function and process the JSON results returned by the server: