ASP.NET MVC - passing parameters to the controller

Question

I have a controller with an action method as follows:

public class InventoryController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult ViewStockNext(int firstItem)
           


        

Answer 1

There is another way to accomplish that (described in more details in Stephen Walther's Pager example

Essentially, you create a link in the view:

Html.ActionLink("Next page", "Index", routeData)

In routeData you can specify name/value pairs (e.g., routeData["page"] = 5), and in the controller Index function corresponding parameters receive the value. That is,

public ViewResult Index(int? page)

will have page passed as 5. I have to admit, it's quite unusual that string ("page") automagically becomes a variable - but that's how MVC works in other languages as well...