Question

I am stuck with redirecting problem in ASP.NET MVC project. I have mapped tables via LINQtoSQL and each has unique ID as primary key.

I am implementing functionallity of ‘CREATE’. Basically, after new value is added into SQL table (which means I pressed Save button), I want to be redirected to Details of this freshly added item.

Here’s little code how I am doing it :

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post), Authorize]
public ActionResult Create(Item item) {
....
return RedirectToAction("Details", new { id = item.ItemID });

Trouble is, I am never redirected to Details view (I have Details.aspx view for items).

When I check CallHierarchy in Visual Studio (2010 pro) the hierarchy is indeed little strange, like this :

RedirectToAction(string,object)

• Calls To ‘RedirectToAction’
  • Create
    • Calls To Create (no results)
    • Calls From Create (methods of created instance. From there I’ll get back to ‘RedirectToAction’ and to ‘Calls to Create’ and ‘Calls From Create’ etc. etc. – loop
  • Edit
• Calls From ‘RedirectToAction’
  • Not supported

I am looking for some tools or more specifically ‘know how’ (since VS probably has some tools) to debug this kind of situations.

PS: rooting is default :”{controller}/{action}/{id}”,

Thanks

Answer 1

Checck your routes with Phil Haack’s Route Debugger. Make sure that the correct route is being used, and the correct controller method is being called.