Question

I am using ASP.NET 3.0 MVC with membership provider. I have to make modification to the default implementation we get with membership related code. I have to move LogOff Hyperlink in the master page. Initially this link is in-visible but once authentication is succesfful I need to make it visible. This action will happen from Controller for authentication and I am not sure how to access the hyperlink defined in a master page from a different controller. Any ideas how this could be achieved keeping the spirits of MVC design?

Answer 1

You could create another action in your AccountController to determine if the log off link needs to be displayed. This action has a partial for the html. Call this new action from the master page and check in that action if the log off link needs to be displayed.

 @{ Html.RenderAction("displayLogOff", "Account"); }