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Reputation: 29720

How to get Url.action to produce the action method name

Why doesn't this call to action provide the action method name?

@Url.Action("Index","NewStore")

It just produces...

localhost/TemplateUI/en-CA/Atomic/Wassabi/Store

I need it to produce the /index on the end....

Upvotes: 0

Views: 269

Answers (1)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038780

That's because the Url.Action helper uses your route registration in Global.asax. And since you are passing Index as action name I guess that in your route registration you have specified that the default value for action="Index", so it is omitted.

For example if you have the following default route:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

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

since the controller = "Home" and action = "Index" constraints have been specified both / and /Home will be absolutely equivalent urls and invoke the Index action of Home controller.

So the same happens when you try to build an url with some of the helpers : it uses your routes.

If you need to have the action name in the url make sure you have removed the action constraint in your route definition.

Upvotes: 1

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