ActionResult and derived classes

ActionResult is the base return type of Action Method.
The following table shows the classes which are  derived from ActionResult Class.

1. ViewResult
2. PartialViewResult
3. RedirectResult
4. RedirectToRouteResult
5. ContentResult
6. JsonResult
7. JavaScriptResult
8. FileResult
9. FileContentResult
10. FilePathResult
11. FileStreamResult
12. EmptyResult
13. HttpNotFoundResult
14. HttpUnauthorizedResult
15. HttpStatusCodeResult

In some controller the general structure of Action method is as the following:

1. public ActionResult ActionMethodName()
   {
       return {new} SomeHelperMethodRelatedToDerivedClass();
   }