Asp.Net MVC-从控制器操作重现纯ViewModel

Question

I use Asp.Net MVC 5.0 and I'd like to "talk" with controller in my layout page. I want to call ProfileController.GetProfileInformationViewModel method in my Layout page to get ProfileViewModel class object. Is it possible without returning ActionResult ( View/PartialView ) and using something like HtmlAction in Razor ? I do not want to return any html, I want to keep it decoupled and reusable.

Answer 1

Do you mean you want to return something like JSON data and get this via JavaScript?

public JsonResult GetProfileInformationViewModel(int id)
{
    var myProfile = GetProfile(id);
    return new JsonResult(){ Data = myProfile };
}

Then you can use an ajax call to get the object.