Using href tag in ASP.NET

Question

I am new to ASP.NET. In my content file I have the line:

<a href="products/myproduct">

I have a view file named Myproduct.aspx and inside the ProductsController there is the method:

   public ActionResult Myproduct()
    {
        return View();
    }

However for the line <a href="products/myproduct"> Everything works fine but I get a warning saying the path products/myproduct does not exist. Am I doing something wrong ? Is this the right way to achieve this ?

Answer 1

You should create your link like this:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Go to product", "Myproduct", "Products") %>

According to the MSDN documentation the first parameter is the linkText, second is the actionName and third is the controllerName.

This way you don't need to write the <a href="">on your own. If you want to write this on your own (but it's not recommended), you need to use the Url.Action() method:

<a href="<%= Url.Action("Myproduct","Products") %>">Go to product</a>

Answer 2

You might want to use Url helpers instead:

<a href="@Url.Action("MyProduct","Products")">