How to render plain HTML links in Asp.Net MVC loop?

Question

I would like to render a list of HTML links in ASP.NET MVC. Note that the links are absolute and external to the website being designed. The following code

Answer 1

Orchard project has an HtmlHelper extensions class which has a link builder method.

See: HtmlHelperExtensions.Link()

http://orchard.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/dbec3d05e6d1#src%2fOrchard%2fMvc%2fHtml%2fHtmlHelperExtensions.cs

Allows the following usage:

@Html.Link(Model.Path, Model.Title)
 

Update The above link is no longer valid, but if you download the source, you will find HtmlHelperExtensions which has 5 overloads for Links, one of which looks like this:

public static IHtmlString Link(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string linkContents, string href, IDictionary htmlAttributes) {
        var tagBuilder = new TagBuilder("a") { InnerHtml = htmlHelper.Encode(linkContents) };
        tagBuilder.MergeAttributes(htmlAttributes);
        tagBuilder.MergeAttribute("href", href);
        return new HtmlString(tagBuilder.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
    }