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ASP.net MVC dynamically create and return image from Controller

I've found that I have a need to create an image dynamically (or read from a file) and return it directly from a controller. We can do that pretty easily. First add this method to a controller: public class ImageController : Controller { public void Generate() { try { //when we create a pixel we need to make it a random color Random randomGen = new Random(); Bitmap image = new Bitmap( width, height ); // create the graphics drawing tool using ( Graphics gfx = Graphics.FromImage( image ) ) // create a solid brush to draw the image, I'm using random colors using ( SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush( Color.FromArgb( randomGen.Next( 255 ), randomGen.Next( 255 ), randomGen.Next( 255 ) ) ) ) { gfx.FillRectangle( brush, 0, 0, width, height );

ASP.net MVC Ajax.BeginForm with busy icon

So I've been exploring the world of MVC and found it's pretty easy to do a postback to a controller and do it with AJAX and show a busy icon and keep the user from pressing the submit button. This is MVC 5 with the Razor rendering engine. Below is the entire section: <div id="divSendEmail"> @using ( Ajax.BeginForm( "SendEmail", "Contact", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "result", LoadingElementId = "loading", OnBegin= "sendEmailLoad()", OnComplete= "completeSendEmailLoad()" } ) ) { <div id="loading" style="display: none; position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; margin-top: -50px; margin-left: -50px; width: 100px; height: 100px;"> <img src="~/Content/images/gears_animated.gif" /> </div> <fieldset> Name: <input type="text" class="form-