Question

I have created a HelloWorld Controller and it’s corresponding view. All is working correctly when I go to http://localhost/HelloWorld

I am trying to add a menu item to the default MVC app. In the _Layout.cshtml file I have

<ul id="menu">
    <li>@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")</li>
    <li>@Html.ActionLink("Hello World", "HelloWorld", "")</li>
    <li>@Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")</li>
</ul>

Note they only thing I added was the Hello World part. However when I click on the menu item it takes me http://localhost/Home/HelloWorld. How do I get it to go to just http://localhost/HelloWorld?

I’m really new to MVC and not exactly sure what I’m doing. A few google searches have mentioned modifying the Routes in the Global.asax.cs but that seems a bit weird and not sure where to start there. I’ve also tried using the ~ to get back to root which works in the old school asp.net pages but not here.

Answer 1

The definition for ActionLink is.

public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(
    this HtmlHelper htmlHelper,
    string linkText,
    string actionName,
    string controllerName
)

Since you are trying to redirect to /HelloWorld, I’m assuming that your controller is HelloWorld and your action is Index. Using this information we can fill in the method.

Html.ActionLink(
    "Hello World",  // Link Text
    "Index",        // Action
    "HelloWorld",   // Controller
)