Let's quickly define AJAX: It stands for asynchronous JavaScript and XML and it allows your web application to send and receive data from the server asynchronously. This means that you can have the server perform some action and return the results without having to refresh the current page! T...

Sometimes in your MVC3 application’s _Layout.cshtml you may want to display data that is pulled from the database. Since there is no layout controller, how do you do this? Or what if you had some data that was needed to be displayed in multiple views and you don’t want to implement the same l...