Question

I’m trying to pass a complex object (that can be serialized, if that helps) to another view.

Currently this is the code i have, in some controller method :-

User user = New User { Name = 'Fred, Email = 'xxxx' }; return RedirectToAction('Foo', user); 

now, i have the following action in the same controller …

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] public ActionResult Foo(User user) {  ... } 

When i set a breakpoint in there, the code does stop there, but the value of user is null. What do i need to do? Am i missing something in the global.asax?

cheers 🙂

Answer 1

Put your User object in TempData. You can’t pass it as a parameter.

TempData['User']  = new User { Name = 'Fred', Email = 'xxxx' }; return RedirectToAction('Foo');  [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] public ActionResult Foo() {     User user = (User)TempData['User'];     ... } 

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