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This really tripped me up, and in searching for a solution - 99% of the responses all focused on previous versions of MVC and/or never mentioned the required NuGet packages.

For some reason VS2013, does not include the "Microsoft jQuery Unobtrusive Ajax" package when it builds a default MVC project.

I found that the "jQuery validation" package was not needed either.

Once I installed that package, and added the script references the results were returned correctly to the target DIV.

To confirm, I am using:

- VS2013 with MVC 4.5.1

- jQuery 2.1.3

- Microsoft jQuery Unobtrusive Ajax 3.2.3

In BundleConfig.cs I decided to add a new bundle because of the confusion:

bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/jqueryunob").Include(

"~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive*"));

And then applied it to all pages by referencing it in _Layout.cshtml:

@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryunob")