RedirectToAction not refreshing the page

Question

I have a scenario where I am on a view page and calling a action method in controller A that calls another action in controller B via a RedirectToAction return, and this action returns the view that Im already on.

I want the page to refresh to reflect the updates to the system state these two actions have made, but MVC seems to decide the page does not need to be refreshed as I'm returning to the same view. How do I force a refresh?

Example:

//user is on A/index, and submits a form that calls this in contoller B
public ActionResult ActionInControllerB()
{
     //do stuff
     return RedirectToAction(ActionNames. ActionInControllerA, ControllerNames.A);
}

public ActionResult ActionInControllerA()
{
     //do stuff
     return View("index");
}

Answer 1

I had similar problem, but it started from ajax call from the view file to the controller file. The controller made an update to the DB and then call RedirecToAction in order to refresh the view. But no refresh... None of the answers above helped me. The only way I could solve it was by using a different method to call an action from the view file:

window.location = "Experiment/DeleteExperiment?experimentId=" + $("#DeleteExperimentButton").val();

From that point everything acted as I expected to.