Partial Views vs. Json (or both)

Question

I use ASP.NET MVC with jQuery and have a lot of Ajax requests to my controllers.

Use Partial Views (usercontrols) to build the intial view when a page is loaded. The

Answer 1

You can do this way as well, Put this Inside your controller.

protected string RenderPartialViewToString(string viewName, object model)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
        viewName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");

    ViewData.Model = model;

    using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter()) {
        ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);
        ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
        viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);

        return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
    }
}