Question

I’m having some troubles when trying to use routes in ASP.NET MVC 3.
I’m in this URL:

mysite/InitialPage/123456 <- partner ID

Routing it…

routes.MapRoute(
    "InitialPageRoute",
    "InitialPage/{partnerID}",
    new { controller = "InitialPage", action = "Index" }
);

OK, it works fine.
When I put a Html.ActionLink to redirect to another page…

@Html.ActionLink("Another copy of some bill", "CopyOfBill", "Payment", new { partnerID = ViewBag.PartnerID })

And routing this way…

routes.MapRoute(
    "CopyOfBillRoute",
    "Payment/CopyOfBill/{partnerID}",
    new { controller = "Payment", action = "CopyOfBill" }
);

And doesn’t work.
Anyone have any idea?

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

It might be best to use a RouteLink in this case (name the route explicitly), since both the controller and action are hard-coded.

@Html.RouteLink("Another copy of some bill", "CopyOfBillRoute", 
    new { partnerID = ViewBag.PartnerID })