ASP.NET MVC: How to close browser window instead of returning a view?

I have an instance where, not by my own choice, but I have a secondary popup window in the browser. Upon form submission back to a server-side MVC method, after this method is complete I'd like it to close that browser window that called it.

Is there a way to do this other than to return a view with ja开发者_如何学运维vascript in the "onReady" that tells it to close?

No, there isn't a way to achieve this from the server without using javascript (or returning a view that will execute this javascript).

Put this in your view:

@if (ViewBag.ShouldClose) {
    <script type="text/javascript">
        window.close();
    </script>  
}

Then if you set the ShouldClose property, it'll run that script and should close the window.

// in your controller
ViewBag.ShouldClose = true;

Note: I did this from the editor so you might have to tweak the view syntax to get it to parse right.

I had the same question and the answer of @Michael Kennedy was exactly what I needed! Since I am using MVC 2 I did have to alter the syntax. I'll put it here as a reference for others.

In the view:

<% if ((bool)ViewData["ShouldClose"]) { %>
<script type="text/javascript">
   window.close();
</script>
<% } %>

In the controller:

ViewData["ShouldClose"] = true;

Don't forget to set the ViewData in each call to the view otherwise you'll get a NullReference for the cast to bool.