I want to create a URL like /?name=Macbeth&year=2011 with my ActionLink which I have tried doing like so:
<%= Html.ActionLink("View Details", "Details", "Performances", new { name = item.show }, new { year = item.year })%>
but it doesn't work. How do I do this?
The overload you are using makes the year value end up in the html attributes of the link (check your rendered source).
The overload signature looks like this:
MvcHtmlString HtmlHelper.ActionLink(
string linkText,
string actionName,
string controllerName,
object routeValues,
object htmlAttributes
)
You need to put both your route values in to the RouteValues dictionary like this:
Html.ActionLink(
"View Details",
"Details",
"Performances",
new { name = item.show, year = item.year },
null
)
/Macbeth/2011?In addition to Mikael Östberg answer add something like this in your global.asax
routes.MapRoute(
"View Details",
"Performances/Details/{name}/{year}",
new {
controller ="Performances",
action="Details",
name=UrlParameter.Optional,
year=UrlParameter.Optional
});
then in your controller
// the name of the parameter must match the global.asax route
public action result Details(string name, int year)
{
return View();
}
Based on Mikael Östberg answer and just in case people need to know how it does with html attr. Here is another example, reference from ActionLink
@Html.ActionLink("View Details",
"Details",
"Performances",
new { name = item.show, year = item.year },
new {@class="ui-btn-right", data_icon="gear"})
@Html.ActionLink("View Details",
"Details",
"Performances", new RouteValueDictionary(new {id = 1}),new Dictionary<string, object> { { "class", "ui-btn-test" }, { "data-icon", "gear" } })
