The difference between Html.Action and Html.RenderAction

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure out the difference between RenderAction and Action. I don\'t know if I\'m so concerned about the differences at this point, as to why I can\'t ge

Answer 1

From Phil Haack:

The difference between the two is that Html.RenderAction will render the result directly to the Response (which is more efficient if the action returns a large amount of HTML) whereas Html.Action returns a string with the result.