How to get an ASP.NET MVC Ajax response to redirect to new page instead of inserting view into Updat

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Published on 2009-10-08T15:23:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 20:24 UTC
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I am using the Ajax.BeginForm to create a form the will do an ajax postback to a certain controller action and then if the action is successful, the user should get redirected to another page (if the action fails then a status message gets displayed using the AjaxOptions UpdateTargetId).

using (Ajax.BeginForm("Delete", null,
        new { userId = Model.UserId },
        new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "UserForm", LoadingElementId = "DeletingDiv" },
        new { name = "DeleteForm", id = "DeleteForm" }))
   {
    [HTML DELETE BUTTON]
   }

If the delete is successful I am returning a Redirect result:

[Authorize]
public ActionResult Delete(Int32 UserId)
{
    UserRepository.DeleteUser(UserId);
    return Redirect(Url.Action("Index", "Home"));
}

But the Home Controller Index view is getting loaded into the UpdateTargetId and therefore I end up with a page within a page. Two things I am thinking about:

  1. Either I am architecting this wrong and should handle this type of action differently (not using ajax).
  2. Instead of returning a Redirect result, return a view which has javascript in it that does the redirect on the client side.

Does anyone have comments on #1? Or if #2 is a good solution, what would the "redirect javascript view" look like?

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