R – What happened to Html.ActionLink in ASP.NET MVC

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I'm reading all of these blogs about using the Html.ActionLink method with lambda expressions. I even saw a ScottGu presentation about it here: http://www.hanselman.com/silverlight/ScottGuAtAltNetConf/

Here's a blog: http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/aspnet-mvc-preview-using-the-mvc-ui-helpers/

Here's a ScottGu blog about it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/03/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing.aspx

"Can also be written as:


<%= Html.ActionLink("Search Drinks", s => s.Results("Beverages", 2)) %>

With this being such a powerful way to write URL routes – ESPECIALLY since it automatically supports refactoring tools – why is this either apparently missing or so hard to find? I looked at System.Web.Mvc.Html.LinkExtensions in Reflector and I see plenty of ActionLink(this HtmlHelper…) extension methods, but none that are generic.

Anyone have help? Thanks!!

Best Answer

It got moved out to the Futures assembly (Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll) as, from what I understand, there were some issues the dev team needed to sort through.

http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=24471

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ASP.NET MVC changed a lot after ScottGu’s blogging

That code is based on asp.net mvc 1.0 Preview2. Version 1 has been released, and Version 2 is currently in beta. Check out the samples at http://asp.net/mvc to get updated samples

Asp.net-mvc – Compile Views in ASP.NET MVC

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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