Question

I have created a mvc 3 web app.

_Layout.cshtml contain following menu

   <li>@Html.ActionLink("Contact Us", "ContactUs", "Home")</li>
   <li>@Html.ActionLink("Enquiry", "Enquiry", "Enquiry")</li>

For Enquiry I have created new folder Enquiry inside View folder and create Enquiry.cshtml inside it.

Then also i’m getting error :
Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.

please help me if i’m missing something.

Answer 1

In addition to your error the error page also shows you something like this for Contact Us:

Requested URL: /Home/ContactUs

Ensure you got an action named ContactUs inside your home controller.

and for Enquiry

Requested URL: /Enquiry/Enquiry

Ensure you got an action named Enquiry inside your Enquiry controller.

The ActionLink method has several overrides, you are using this one:

ActionLink(string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName);

The parameters are:

• linkText: The inner text of the anchor element
• actionName: The name of the action
• controllerName: the name of the controller

So when you specify the below you are saying, show my link text as Contact Us and when clicked go to the ContactUs action in my Home controller:

@Html.ActionLink("Contact Us", "ContactUs", "Home")

Make sure all your actions and controller names you specify exist.