Question

Say I am on Module1 -> Controller1 -> View1.

In View1, I want to add a regular hyperlink to Module2 -> Controller2 -> View2.

How do I do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In ASP.NET MVC links point to action on a controller, not to a view. View can (but not have to be) returned from a given action as a result.

So, if your View2 is returned from eg. action MyAction on Controller2 sitting in Module2, then you can easily add a link to that action from anywhere by writing:

@Html.ActionLink("Click Me", 
                 "MyAction", 
                 "Controller2", 
                 new { area = "Module2" }, 
                 new {})

or

@Html.ActionLink("Click Me", 
                 "MyAction", 
                 new { controller = "Controller2", area = "Module2" })

whichever looks better for you. There are a couple of other possible overrides.

The Area route property is used in Orchard to specify the target module name.