I have an action I call from an anchor thusly, Site/Controller/Action/ID where ID is an int.

Later on I need to redirect to this same Action from a Controller.

Is there a clever way to do this? Currently I'm stashing ID in tempdata, but when you hit f5 to refresh the page again after going back, the tempdata is gone and the page crashes.


You can pass the id as part of the routeValues parameter of the RedirectToAction() method.

return RedirectToAction("Action", new { id = 99 });

This will cause a redirect to Site/Controller/Action/99. No need for temp or any kind of view data.


Kurt's answer should be right, from my research, but when I tried it I had to do this to get it to actually work for me:

return RedirectToAction( "Main", new RouteValueDictionary( 
    new { controller = controllerName, action = "Main", Id = Id } ) );

If I didn't specify the controller and the action in the RouteValueDictionary it didn't work.

Also when coded like this, the first parameter (Action) seems to be ignored. So if you just specify the controller in the Dict, and expect the first parameter to specify the Action, it does not work either.

If you are coming along later, try Kurt's answer first, and if you still have issues try this one.