Problem using Html.ActionLink to call action on different controller

Question

I am trying to navigate between controllers using ActionLink.

I will tell my problem with an example.

I am on Index view of Hat controller

I am trying to use below code to create a link to Details action of Product controller.

<%= Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", "Product", new { id=item.ID }) %>

Instead of creating me a link to Details on Product controller this generates a link to Details action under Hat controller and appends a Length parameter to the end of it:

Hat/Details/9?Length=7

I am not able to use HTML.ActionLink to switch between controllers because of this problem. I will appreciate if you can point me to what I am doing wrong. Thanks

PS: I am using the default route setting that comes with mvc

routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } );

Answer 1

You're hitting the wrong the overload of ActionLink. Try this instead.

<%= Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", "Product", new RouteValueDictionary(new { id=item.ID })) %>

Answer 2

If you grab the MVC Futures assembly (which I would highly recommend) you can then use a generic when creating the ActionLink and a lambda to construct the route:

<%=Html.ActionLink<Product>(c => c.Action( o.Value ), "Details" ) %>

You can get the futures assembly here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24471

Answer 3

What you want is this overload :

//linkText, actionName, controllerName, routeValues, htmlAttributes
<%=Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", 
    "Product", new {id = item.ID}, null) %>