Strongly typed actionlink with asp.net mvc beta?

Question

I used to be able to do the following in Preview 3

<%=Html.BuildUrlFromExpression<AController>(c => c.AnAction(par1, par2)%>

How am I supposed to create urls in a strongly typed way with the MVC Beta? The only thing so far I have found is

<%= Html.ActionLink("aName", "ActionName", "ControllerName")%>

This is not strongly typed off course.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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You need the ASP.NET MVC Beta Futures, which is a separate download

then your original code will work as before.

See this post for getting it working: SO post on missing extensions

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

answered Oct 20 '08 at 12:37

Sam Mackrill

Thanks. So if you didn't know that you had to download an extra part of it, there is no way of creating a type safe url?! Also, how did you know that? – Boris Callens Oct 20 '08 at 12:39
From the SO post I have added – Sam Mackrill Oct 20 '08 at 12:41

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '08 at 12:39

3

The Microsoft.Web.Mvc assembly provides extension methods to the HtmlHelper which allow something like

<%= Html.ActionLink<SomeController>(c => c.Index()) %>

answered Oct 20 '08 at 12:39

hangy

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