R – Strongly typed links in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 beta

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With ASP.NET MVC 1.0 I always have been able to generate strongly typed links in my Views using a lambda function:

Html.BuildUrlFromExpression<TController>(c => c.Action(arg));

I'm now upgrading to ASP.NET MVC 2.0 beta and I can't find any strongly typed extension for the HtmlHelper (nor the UrlHelper in fact). Have they been replaced by some other method? Is there a new way of building links to controller actions?

I'd hate to go back to using strings in my views.

Best Answer

The strongly-typed URL generation helpers are part of the MVC Futures binary, not the MVC core binary itself. You can download a version of MVC Futures that works with MVC 2 Beta from CodePlex.

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From the readme word doc for RC1 (not indexed by google)

ASP.NET Compiler Post-Build Step

Currently, errors within a view file are not detected until run time. To let you detect these errors at compile time, ASP.NET MVC projects now include an MvcBuildViews property, which is disabled by default. To enable this property, open the project file and set the MvcBuildViews property to true, as shown in the following example:

<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
  </PropertyGroup>

Note Enabling this feature adds some overhead to the build time.

You can update projects that were created with previous releases of MVC to include build-time validation of views by performing the following steps:

Open the project file in a text editor.
Add the following element under the top-most <PropertyGroup> element: <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews>
At the end of the project file, uncomment the <Target Name="AfterBuild"> element and modify it to match the following:

<Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(MvcBuildViews)'=='true'">
    <AspNetCompiler VirtualPath="temp" PhysicalPath="$(ProjectDir)\..\$(ProjectName)" />
</Target>

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