Question

I am trying to create an action link within a view for my controller RequestedService which takes the user to another controller and action in the form:

/ItemsForService/Create/{id}

With ItemsForService being the controller that the create function exists in.

So far I have:

@Html.ActionLink("Add Item", "ItemsForService", "Create", New With {.id = currentItem.RequestedServiceId})

However this seems to pass it as Create?=id and not Create/id

How would I pass as the latter?

Answer 1

Use the correct overload of ActionLink to get the intended result

@Html.ActionLink("Add Item", "ItemsForService", "Create", New With { id = currentItem. currentItem }, Nothing)

You don’t need the .id = ... it’s just id = ...

The overload is ActionLink(string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, object routeValues, object htmlAttributes)

Adding the last parameter of Nothing as null HTML attributes is necessary when you supply parameters to the action. Or if you actually needed to apply HTML Attributes to the link, you would use:

@Html.ActionLink("Add Item", "ItemsForService", "Create", New With { id = currentItem. currentItem }, New With { @class = "MyCustomCssClassName" } )