How can I implement tabs in ASP.NET MVC using query strings?

Question

Duplicate:

How can I build a tabbed menu in ASP.NET MVC?

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If you hover over the tabs of Stackoverflow, you'll see query strings like "?tab=hot", etc... I'm looking to do something similar, and could use some pointers:

• How can I select tabs based off the query string in ASP.NET MVC?
• Should I process this in a view, or in a controller?

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Answer 1

I don't know how they do it as I haven't seen the source code but you could do that easily just by adding a parameter to your action method. Something like:

public ActionResult Questions(int id, string tab) {
    //...
}

Answer 2

Without looking my guess would be that the controller sets various pieces of view data and the view displays differently based on those.

Answer 3

See this discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978025/how-to-build-a-stackoverflow-tabbed-menu-in-asp-net-mvc