A number of folks have asked me how to pass query string values along with a route parameter id. They are looking onto send a url like http://MySite/Home/Edit/5?name=shiju.
The below is the routing configuration
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
We need to pass route information for id parameter and also attach query string values. The below is our action method
public ActionResult Edit(int id,string name)
{
//To Do
return View();
}
The below action method would set values for id parameter and query string parameter name.
<%=Html.ActionLink("Edit","Edit",new { id=5,name="shiju"}) %>
The ActionLink helper would generate the following markup
<a href="/Home/Edit/5?name=shiju">Edit</a>
Our Action method would automatically taken the value 5 for id and value "shiju" for name. This is really nice feature and convention of ASP.NET MVC