Question

Withing a Silverlight Application, how does one get the ID from the URL when using MVC given the URL in the standard MVC Format {controller}/{action}/{id}

Is there anything MVC specific or does one need to parse this URL ‘manually’?

Answer 1

Well that’s simple, either look in Request.Params[“id”] or – and that’s more ellegant – add a argument with the name “id” to you Controller method (case does not matter).

public void Index(string id) { }

Works even for more complex objects, the MVC does a good job in retrieving the information and matching it to the arguments of the controller method.

public class Data {
  public string ID { get; set; }
}

public void Index(Data data) {
  // data.id should be set
}

Silverlight runs on the client, therefore it cannot access the values on the server. However, the sever can pass the info to the client.