Question

How to differentiate between ActionResult and ViewResult?

Answer 1

Some common differentiation between ActionResult and ViewResult is –

ActionResult	ViewResult
It becomes effective if you want to derive different types of views dynamically	It is not so effective in deriving different types of views dynamically
It is an abstract class, meaning it has methods and variables without the implementation body of instruction.	This has been derived from the ActionResult class
JsonResult, ViewResult, and FileStreamResult are some examples of its derived class	This class do not have its own derived class