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Asked: 2026-06-09T00:32:13+00:00

I am trying to pass a strongly types my Model from view to Controller.

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I am trying to pass a strongly types my Model from view to Controller. My view is strongly typed. Somehow i am getting “null” in the property values when the “Save” action method is called in the controller. I am using Asp.Net MVC 3.

This is how my View looks like:

@model MvcApplication2.Models.Event
@{
    Layout = null;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>AddNew</title>
</head>
<body>
    @using(Html.BeginForm("Save","Event",FormMethod.Post, Model))
    {
        <div>
            <p>@Html.LabelFor(m=>m.EventName) @Html.TextBoxFor(m=>m.EventName)</p>
            <p>@Html.LabelFor(m=>m.Venue) @Html.TextBoxFor(m=>m.Venue)</p>
            <p>@Html.LabelFor(m=>m.StartTime) @Html.TextBoxFor(m=>m.StartTime)</p>
            <p>@Html.LabelFor(m=>m.EndTime) @Html.TextBoxFor(m=>m.EndTime)</p>
            @Html.ActionLink("Save Event", "Save")
        </div>
        }
</body>
</html>

This is how my EventController looks like:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using MvcApplication2.Models;

namespace MvcApplication2.Controllers
{
    public class EventController : Controller
    {

        public string Save(Event eventModel)
        {
           //Here eventModel.EventName and rest of the properties are null.

            return "Saved";
        }

    }
}

This is how Model looks like:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace MvcApplication2.Models
{
    public class Event
    {
        public string EventName { get; set; }
        public string Venue { get; set; }
        public string StartTime { get; set; }
        public string EndTime { get; set; }
    }
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    ActionLinks don’t submit forms. Change:

    @Html.ActionLink("Save Event", "Save")

    To

    <input type="submit" value="Save">

    Additionally, this would have been more pronounced if you added [HttpPost] to your method.

        [HttpPost]
    public string Save(Event eventModel)
    {
       //Here eventModel.EventName and rest of the properties are null.

        return "Saved";
    }
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