Question

I have a route (which works):

routes.MapRoute(
    "Details", // Route name
    "{controller}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Advisors", action = "Details", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, // Parameter defaults
    new { id = new GuidConstraint() } // Constraint
);

And a link:

@Html.RouteLink(@item.FullName, "Details", new { controller = "Advisors", id = item.Id })

However the link is rendering as:

<a href="">David Wick</a>

Basically my goal here is to have routes that are {controller}/{id} and the links rendered are also in that format. When using Html.ActionLink() links render as {controller}/{action}/{id} and Html.RenderRoute() doesn’t seem to work at all, despite the route working.

What’s going on here?

Answer 1

I was able to correct this issue just now by changing “item.Id” to “item.Id.ToString()”. Probably not the ideal solution, but good enough for me for now.