Question

Is it possible to force an @Html.ActionLink() to do a POST instead of a GET? If so, how?

Answer 1

ActionLink helper method will render an anchor tag, clicking on which is always a GET request. If you want to make it a POST request. You should override the default behviour using a little javacsript

@ActionLink("Delete","Delete","Item",new {@id=4},new { @class="postLink"})

Now some jQuery code

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function(){
    $("a.postLink").click(function(e){
      e.preventDefault();
      $.post($(this).attr("href"),function(data){
          // got the result in data variable. do whatever you want now
          //may be reload the page
      });
    });    
  });    
</script>

Make sure you have an Action method of HttpPost type to handle this request

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Delete(int id)
{
  // do something awesome here and return something      
}