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Asked: 2026-06-12T14:59:16+00:00

I wanted to what action a view called programmatically by specifying the action name

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I wanted to what action a view called programmatically by specifying the action name via the ViewBag or ViewData components, but I was unable to do so. why!?

@using (Html.BeginForm(ViewData["SubmitType"], "Person"))
{...

when I run this I get:

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource
required to service this request. Please review the following specific
error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: CS1928:
‘System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper’ does not contain a
definition for ‘BeginForm’ and the best extension method overload
‘System.Web.Mvc.Html.FormExtensions.BeginForm(System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper,
string, string)’ has some invalid arguments

Source Error:

Line 11: Line 12: Line 13: @using
(Html.BeginForm(ViewData[“SubmitType”], “Person”)) Line 14: { Line 15:
@Html.ValidationSummary(true)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Whoops! can’t believe I forgot that the Viewdata and ViewBag are not going to hold the type string. I had to cast the return value, and everything worked!

    @using (Html.BeginForm((string)ViewData["SubmitType"], "Person"))
{
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