Dynamically create webpages with different URLs

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Wasn't able to find this.. maybe I wasn't looking correctly. But pretty much this is my view:

<div class="jumbotron">
    @foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
    {
        <ul>
            <li>@dr["Name"].ToString() - @dr["Distance"].ToString()</li>
        </ul>
    }
</div>

I want to create a new page (using c# and MVC) for each of the bullet points with different URL's depending on the name. How can I do that? Do I use ActionLink? Does it have to do with Routing?

Basically let's say you have a list of Restaurants, I want it so that when you click on a restaurant it takes you to a different URL like yourdomain.com/restaurant-name, and then I want to populate that page with some HTML. How do I go about doing that?

You really should not be consuming DataSets and DataTables from a view. Create a Model and fill it with the proper data. Look into Entity Framework (ORM that makes database to model mapping a breeze). — Sam Axe
– Sam Axe, Commented Jul 14, 2015 at 2:55

Sam Axe · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14 18:25:10Z

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The default route takes urls in the format: domain.com/controller/action/id

So if you code up a Controller called RestaurantsController with an Action View then you can pass it the id of the restaurant you want to view... thusly:

Yes, this is VB, I'm sure you can translate

Public Function View(Optional ByVal id As String) As ActionResult

    '  Fetch your restaurant data...
    Dim model As Restaurant = RestaurantRepository.GetRestaurantById(id)

    Return View(model)

End Function

access the action via: domain.com/Restaurants/View/whatever-your-restaurant-id-is

Then to make links for it in your razor view you can do:

@Html.ActionLink("Link text here", "View", "Restaurants", 
                 htmlAttributes:=Nothing, routeValues:= New With {.id = dr["Name"]})

edited Jul 14, 2015 at 18:25

answered Jul 14, 2015 at 2:51

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vbaid Over a year ago

sorry to be a noob and thanks for the help! But anyway you could convert that into c#?

Sam Axe Over a year ago

@vbaid: nope. I'll leave that for you to do.

vbaid Over a year ago

Actually, I just have one more question if that's okay @Sam Axe, I followed this and converted it. I then also made a ShowMenu.cshtml view, but when I run the program it gives me an error such as "the view or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations"

Sam Axe Over a year ago

I think I forgot the link text parameter earlier.

vbaid · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-14 17:42:41Z

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View:

<div class="jumbotron">
    @foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
    {
        <ul>
            <li>@Html.ActionLink(@dr["Name"].ToString() + "-" + @dr["Distance"].ToString(), "ShowMenu", routeValues: new {id = dr["Name"] })</li>
        </ul>
    }
</div>

Controller:

public ActionResult ShowMenu(string id)
        {
            return View(id);
        }

answered Jul 14, 2015 at 17:42

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