How to report error to $.ajax without throwing exception in MVC controller?

Question

I have a controller, and a method as defined...

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult UpdateUser(UserInformation model){

   // Instead of throwing exception
   thr         


        

Answer 1

Based on what BigMike posted, this was what I did in my NON MVC/WEBAPI webproject.

Response.ContentType = "application/json";
Response.StatusCode = 400;
Response.Write (ex.Message);

For what it is worth (and thanks BigMike!) It worked perfectly.