Question

Hi; i am a Asp.net software developer. i try to learn asp.net mvc. But i face to face strange thing. My contoller method name must be the same as view name or reverse. this is strange! Look please my _Layout:

    <nav>
            <ul id="menu">
                <li>@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")</li>
                <li>@Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")</li>
                 <li>@Html.ActionLink("Article", "GetAll", "Article")</li>
            </ul>
        </nav>

article view page need GetAll method also need GetAll.cshtml. My desire: my view page name must independent of controller class’method name. My Controller:

My solution :

i think that Asp.net mvc is strange. i dislike controller’ action name name must the same as view page name? how to make it? i think that View name must independent form any name

Answer 1

You are correct that by default your view name must be the same as your action name. However, this is easy to change. You can just called this overload of the View method in the controller and pass in whatever view name you want:

return View("SomeViewName",articles);