What are all the available ActionResults for ASP.NET MVC?

Question

What are all the methods that return an ActionResult in ASP.NET MVC as of right now (ie. RedirectToAction, etc.)

I haven't found a good documentation resource that lists this kind of stuff.

Answer 1

Found from here

System.Web.Mvc.ActionResult
    System.Web.Mvc.ContentResult
    System.Web.Mvc.EmptyResult
    System.Web.Mvc.FileResult
    System.Web.Mvc.HttpUnauthorizedResult
    System.Web.Mvc.JavaScriptResult
    System.Web.Mvc.JsonResult
    System.Web.Mvc.RedirectResult
    System.Web.Mvc.RedirectToRouteResult
    System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase

Methods on the controller object are here

There is:

Content
File
Javascript
Json
PartialView
Redirect
RedirectToAction
RedirectToRoute
View

Answer 2

From ActionResult types in MVC2:

• ContentResult – Represents a text result.

• EmptyResult – Represents no result.

• FileContentResult – Represents a downloadable file (with the binary content).

• FilePathResult – Represents a downloadable file (with a path).

• FileStreamResult – Represents a downloadable file (with a file stream).

• JavaScriptResult – Represents a JavaScript script.

• JsonResult – Represents a JavaScript Object Notation result that can be used in an AJAX application.

• PartialViewResult – Represents HTML and markup rendered by a partial view.

• RedirectResult – Represents a redirection to a new URL.

• RedirectToRouteResult – Represents a result that performs a redirection by using the specified route values dictionary.

• ViewResult – Represents HTML and markup rendered by a view.