Question

I am working on ASP.NET MVC3. I have a partial view RestaurantAdminNavigation.ascx which i moved from Views/Restaurant Folder to Views/Shared Folder.

I have a action link in that view

<%:Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", "Restaurant", new { id=Model.OId }) %>

It was working fine when it was at Views/Restaurant folder but after moving at Views/Shared folder, if I keep the parameters as a part of that action link, it shows me an error ‘Can not resolve action edit’. But if i keep

<%:Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", "Restaurant") %>

it does not show me error.

After Googling i understand the reason might be registering the routes. I need to register route in Global.ascx file but i can not understand what might should I code if this is the solution.

Answer 1

You are using a wrong overload of the ActionLink helper:

<%= Html.ActionLink(
    "Edit",                  // linkText
    "Edit",                  // actionName
    "Restaurant",            // routeValues
    new { id = Model.OId }   // htmlAttributes
) %>

And here’s the correct one:

<%= Html.ActionLink(
    "Edit",                  // linkText
    "Edit",                  // actionName
    "Restaurant",            // controllerName
    new { id = Model.OId },  // routeValues
    null                     // htmlAttributes
) %>