URL.Action() including route values
I have an ASP.Net MVC 4 app and am using the Url.Action helper like this: @Url.Action("Information", "Admin")
This page is used for both adding a new and edit an admin profile. The URLs are as follows:
Adding a new: http://localhost:4935/Admin/Information
Editing Existing: http://localhost:4935/Admin/Information/5 <==Admin ID
When I'm in the Editing Existing
section of the site and decide that I would like to add a new admin I click on the following link:
<a href="@Url.Action("Information", "Admin")">Add an Admin</a>
The problem however that the above link is actually going to http://localhost:4935/Admin/Information/5
. This only happens when I'm in that page editing an existing admin. Anywhere else on the site it links correctly to http://localhost:4935/Admin/Information
Has anyone else seen this?
UPDATE:
RouteConfig:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
Solution 1:
outgoing url in mvc generated based on the current routing schema.
because your Information action method require id parameter, and your route collection has id of your current requested url(/Admin/Information/5), id parameter automatically gotten from existing route collection values.
to solve this problem you should use UrlParameter.Optional:
<a href="@Url.Action("Information", "Admin", new { id = UrlParameter.Optional })">Add an Admin</a>