Ever wanted to re-use or re-load part of your page via AJAX with MVC 2/3. There is a really simple way to achieve this with PartialViews and jQuery’s .load() function.

1.  Create a PartialView

2. Add some jQuery - AJAX .load():

[sourcecode language="javascript"]
$("#divForPartialView").load("/HelloWorld/GetAwesomePartialView",
{ param1: "hello", param2: 22}, function () {
//do other cool client side stuff
});
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3.  Add your MVC Controller ActionResult that returns your PartialView:

[sourcecode language="csharp"]
public ActionResult GetAwesomePartialView(string param1, int param2)
{
//do some database magic
CustomDTO dto = DAL.GetData(param1, param2);

return PartialView("AwesomePartialView",dto);
}
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4. Add some client side code to make it happen