How to return MVC View from web API

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Hello All,

I already create a Web API in vs 2013 (and it working good), my goals is to return also MVC View to the client for example:
call to url: www.xxx.com/api/home/ should return simple mvc view, my model will update from the web api.

Please advice

Thanks!
Yaniv

Posted 6-Aug-15 13:08pm

YanivNA7

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2015-08-06T16:12:00

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You don't.

You can return one or the other, not both.

Frankly, a WebAPI controller returns nothing but data, never a view page. A MVC controller returns view pages.

Yes, your MVC code can be a consumer of a WebAPI, but not the other way around.

Posted 6-Aug-15 16:12pm

Dave Kreskowiak