Generating Outgoing URLs
Routes are more important in an MVC framework application than in a Web Forms application because we are intimately engaged in the HTML that our application generates. To that end, there are a set of helper methods that we can use in views to generate URLs from the routing system. The simplest way to generate an outgoing URL in a view is to call the Html.ActionLink helper. Listing 27-6 shows this helper used in the List.cshtml view of the Registration controller.
Listing 27-6. Calling the ActionLink helper
@model IEnumerable<EventRegistration.Models.Domain.Registration>
@using EventRegistration.Infrastructure
@{
ViewBag.Title = "List";
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/CustomLayout.cshtml";
}
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