Question

I am working on a project which adopted ASP.NET MVC3(Razor) tech.
Now, I have a controller below:

public class Home: Controller
{
    public ActionResult Result(string id)
    {
        return View(id);
    }
}

and I have set MapRoute as below:

context.MapRoute(
    "Home_result",
    "Home/Result/{id}",
    new { controller="Home", action = "Result"}
);

and it was suposed to display a View which named “Result” when I typed the url http://domain.com/Home/Result/abc123 in the browser. However it didn’t.
Instead it gave me an exception below:

The view 'Result' or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations. The following locations were searched:
~/Views/Home/abc123.cshtml
~/Views/Home/abc123.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/abc123.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/abc123.vbhtml

It is strange isn’t it?
Can anyone help me to figure out what mistakes I’ve made?

Answer 1

return View(id);   

Returns a view with the name of ID’s value (.cshtml), not the view with the name result.cshtml. I think this is because Id is a string. Are you trying to pass the id to the view?

To return the view matching the name of your controller’s action simply use

return View();

If you want to pass that value to the view, for what ever crazy reason, using the viewbag is the easiest way since the string id is being used to declare a view name.

ViewBag.ID = id;
return View();

Then in the view just use the value you stored. And yes Razor HTML encodes by default.

@ViewBag.ID