Question

MVC3 VB.NET Razor view Application… I have a view that uses a for each loop to display all the available courses. Next to each of these I would like to place a Html link to download that courses class handout file. Problem is I have not found anything on any forums about assigning the value to the hyperlink dynamically since it will vary with every iteration of the for each loop. I have coded the model to hold the file name associated with each class. Below is a snippet from the view…

@For Each item In Model
    Dim currentItem = item
    Dim Handout = Path.Combine((AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory) + "CourseHandouts\") + currentItem.handoutFile1
    @<tr>

        <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(Function(modelItem) currentItem.course_ref)
        </td>
           <td>
            @Html.DisplayFor(Function(modelItem) currentItem.course_title)
        </td>

        <td>@Html.DisplayFor(Function(modelitem) currentItem.course_start)</td>
        <td>@Html.DisplayFor(Function(modelitem) currentItem.course_end)</td>

        <td id="Actions">

            @Html.ActionLink("Details", "CourseDetails", New With {.id = currentItem.course_id}) 
         </td>
    <a href="@Handout">Course Handout</a>
    </tr>
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Anyone have any ideas on how I could create a unique download link for each file???

Answer 1

You need to make the link point to a client-facing URL:

<a href="@Url.Content("~/CourseHandouts/" + currentItem.handoutFile1)">