Question

I am having following action link:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Check this", "Edit", "test", 
                     new { id = id }, new { style = "display:block" })%>

How do I include data=name as query string. Some thing like this:

link?data=name

Answer 1

4th parameter of Html.ActionLink can have any number of properties:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Check this", "Edit", "test", 
                     new { id = id, data=name }, new { style = "display:block" })%>

These properties are inserted into URL based on routing, but if the property name cannot be matched into any route it is added as URL GET parameter.

So if you have standard route {controller}/{action}/{id}, you will get the URL:

test/Edit/[id]?data=[name] 

from the above code.