In MVC how do I return a string result

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In my AJAX call  I want to return a string value back to the calling page   Should I use ActionResult or just return a string

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public ActionResult GetAjaxValue        return Content  string value

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There Are 2 ways to return a string from the controller to the view  First  You could return only the string  but it will not be included in your  cshtml file  it will be just a string appearing in your browser   Second  You could return a string as the Model object of View Result   Here is the code sample to do this  public class HomeController   Controller          GET  Home        this will return just a string  not html     public string index                 return  quot URL to show quot              public ViewResult AutoProperty                    string s    quot this is a string  quot              name of view   object you will pass         return View  quot Result quot   s             In the view file to run AutoProperty   It will redirect you to the Result view and will send s code to the view  lt  --this will make this file accept string as it s model-- gt   model string         Layout   null      lt  DOCTYPE html gt    lt html gt   lt head gt       lt meta name  quot viewport quot  content  quot width device-width quot    gt       lt title gt Result lt  title gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt       lt  --this will represent the string -- gt       Model  lt  body gt   lt  html gt    I run this at http   localhost 60227 Home AutoProperty

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public JsonResult GetAjaxValue        return Json  string value   JsonRequetBehaviour Allowget

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You can also just return string if you know that s the only thing the method will ever return  For example   public string MyActionName       return  Hi there

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As of 2020  using ContentResult is still the right approach as proposed above  but the usage is as follows   return new System Web Mvc ContentResult       Content    Hi there          ContentType    text plain  charset utf-8

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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   lt xml gt This is poorly formatted xml  lt  xml gt     text xml

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