Question

Asp.net Mvc1
On my Views/home/Index.aspx which routes from http://localhost/DefectSeverityAssessmentMvcBeta/

This renders

  Response.Write("<a href=\"");
  Response.Write(Url.Action("Create", "Registration"));
  Response.Write("\">Begin Registration</a>");

But returns a 404 for the address of the link http://localhost/DefectSeverityAssessmentMvcBeta/Registration/Create

while this Does not render or show in view source but doesn’t cause any exception:

Html.ActionLink("Begin Registration", "Create", "Registration");

I have a RegistrationController and a /Views/Registration/Create.aspx
The registration controller has breakpoints on Index() and Create() but they are not being hit.

I’m not sure how I would use <%= %> in this scenario because it’s inside the following code block:

<% if (ViewData.ContainsKey("user"))
     {
         if (ViewData.ContainsKey("registered") && (bool)ViewData["registered"] == true)
         {
             //Html.RouteLink("Resume Assessment", "Assessment", new { controller = "Assessment", action = "Index" });
             Response.Write("<a href=\"");
             // Html.ActionLink("Resume Assessment", "Index", "Assessment");

             Response.Write("\">Resume Assessment</a>");
         }
         else
         {
             //Html.RouteLink("Begin", "Registration", new { controller = "Registration", action = "Edit" });
             // Html.ActionLink("Begin Registration", "Create", "Registration");
             Html.RouteLink("Begin", "Default", new { controller = "Registration", action = "Edit" });
             //Response.Write("<a href=\"");

             //Response.Write(Url.Action("Create", "Registration"));
             //Response.Write("\">Begin Registration</a>");
         }


     }
     else
     { Response.Write("Authentication failed"); }
             %>

Answer 1

Are you using <% %> in the HTML for both Response.Write and Html.ActionLink? Try using <%= %> for Html.ActionLink(…);

The added equal sign calls Response.Write behind the scenes thus writing you code to the screen.