Question

Something I encountered today at work, I tried to make a view that used a constant in a class in order to construct a query string. The code works perfectly fine when the constant is public but not when the constant is internal.

Here is the model:

public class LookupListModel
{
    internal const string ContactGroupTypeList = "ContactGroupType";

    // The below works fine
    //public const string ContactGroupTypeList = "ContactGroupType";
}

And the view (correct @using is at the top):

<li>@Html.ActionLink("Contact group types", "Lookup", new { list = LookupListModel.ContactGroupTypeList })</li>

Answer 1

The view is compiled into another assembly, that’s why the internal const does not work.