Is there any attribute relating to AJAX to be set for ASP.NET MVC controller actions?

Question

I want to use partial views with AJAX calls in ASP.NET MVC, and this is the first time I\'m using it. I just searched to see if there is anything special I should know befor

Answer 1

A spinoff of Muhammad's answer letting you specify that it mustn't be an ajax request as well:

using System.Web.Mvc;
public class AjaxAttribute : ActionMethodSelectorAttribute
{
    public bool ajax { get; set; }
    public AjaxAttribute() { ajax = true; }
    public AjaxAttribute(bool a) { ajax = a; }
    public override bool IsValidForRequest(ControllerContext controllerContext, System.Reflection.MethodInfo methodInfo)
    {
        return ajax == controllerContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAjaxRequest();
    }
}

This lets you do things like...

[Ajax]
public PartialViewResult AjaxUpdatingPage() {
    return PartialView();
}

[Ajax(false)]
public ViewResult NotAjaxUpdatingPage() {
    return View();
}