ASP.NET MVC, Actionlink

Question

I am revisiting MVC after some time I am facing some weird errors, which I just can't seem to solve.

@Model List<StockEdgeTest.Models.Department>
@using StockEdgeTest.Models

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Department List";
}

<div style="font-family:'Agency FB'">
    <h2>Department List</h2>

    <ul>
        @foreach (Department dep in @Model)
        {
            <li>
                @Html.ActionLink(dep.DepartmentName, "Index", "Employee", new { DepartmentID = Convert.ToInt32(dep.DepartmentID) })
            </li> 
        }

    </ul>
</div>

This View gives o/p

System.Collections.Generic.List`1[StockEdgeTest.Models.Department] List Department List HR Finance DB IT Management Corpo Bank Facilities Useless Directors

I do not know how to remove this line System.Collections.Generic.List`1[StockEdgeTest.Models.Department] List

More importantly, the actionlink does not seem to working, it just generates https://localhost:44354/?Length=8 instead of https://localhost:44354/Employee/Index

any ideas how to address this? EDIT: action

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using StockEdgeTest.Models;

namespace StockEdgeTest.Controllers
{
    public class DepartmentController : Controller
    {
        // GET: Department
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            EmployeeContext ecn = new EmployeeContext();
            List<Department> e1 = ecn.Department.ToList();
            return View(e1);
        }

    }
}

Answer 1

fix your view :

@model List<StockEdgeTest.Models.Department>

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Department List";
}

<div style="font-family:'Agency FB'">
    <h2>Department List</h2>

    <ul>
        @foreach (Department dep in @Model)
        {
            <li>
@Html.ActionLink(dep.DepartmentName, "Index", "Employee", new { id = dep.DepartmentID}, null )
            </li> 
        }

    </ul>
</di

and in you Index action replace:

return View()

with

[Route("{id?}")]
public ActionResult Index(int id)
{
    .....
List<StockEdgeTest.Models.Department> model= ...your code
return view(model);
}
```