Why Strongly Typed Html.ActionLink is Not in ASP.NET MVC 1

Question

OK, Microsoft removed strongly typed HTML.ActionLink from the main ASP.NET MVC assembly in beta because "of some features that can still evolve in future release of ASP.NET MVC"

But now MVC is officially released, why the strongly typed HTML.ActionLink is still not back?

Answer 1

here is the answer: http://haacked.com/archive/0001/01/01/how-a-method-becomes-an-action.aspx

Answer 2

I believe it got moved in to the futures package.

I think the strongly typed methods are misleading anyway, remember, under the covers it is just a bunch of string maniplulations, after all URLs are just strings!

Answer 3

Two reasons:

1. They don't presently support ActionNameAttribute, so they're arguably broken.
2. There is no caching, so they're presently about 10 times slower than the framework methods.

Also, I agree with matt that we shouldn't pretend that URIs aren't strings.

Answer 4

The link that Matt gave has moved to "http://haacked.com/archive/2008/08/29/how-a-method-becomes-an-action.aspx". And I agree that "the typed nature of the strongly typed ActionLink() skips over more internal MVC you you would prefer"; but I feel the solution to this isn't to give up on it and use magic strings, but instead to improve ActionLink() to generate a link which takes mappings into account!