Question

MVC newbie question; I’m learning by playing around rather than Reading The Manual… 🙂

I see when I create an “Edit” view that the auto-generated view includes a “submit” button:

<input type="submit" value="Save" />

But what code gets called behind the scenes to do this save? Specifically, the model underlying this view has its own fancy save logic in code that I would want to call. How do I get the view to invoke my code instead of whatever standard code is being called invisibly behind the scenes?

Answer 1

It would call whatever public action method the form action is pointing to on your controller. You can then call save on the view model.

    public virtual ActionResult Save(MyViewModel model) {
        model.Save();            

        --- more code to do stuff here
    }

Set your form action to MyController/Save

You can also use using (Html.BeginForm... in your code to point the form to a specific action method on a specific controller.