Question

Here’s the controller code:

public ActionResult AddFriend(string username)
{
    //Todo: Add functionality to add a friend. 

    //Then redirect to that same profile.
    return RedirectToAction("Detail", "Profile", username);
}

Contents of username is stapia.gutierrez, not 16 or anything like that.

When I visit the link:

http://localhost:9198/profile/friend/add/stapia.gutierrez

The above action is called because I create a route in Global.asax:

routes.MapRoute("AddFriend", // Route name 
            "Profile/Friend/Add/{username}", // URL with parameters 
            new { controller = "Profile", action = "AddFriend" } // Parameter defaults 
);

After clicking the URL is shown as:

http://localhost:9198/Profile/stapia.gutierrez?Length=16

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You need to pass the route values like so:

return RedirectToAction("Detail", "Profile", new { username="value" });