Redirect a view in the home folder to another in the same folder

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I´m developing a MVC app just for learning purposes.
I added a new View in the /Views/Home directory, and I tried to access it from the Index View, but when I do it, get the error HTTP 404.

here´s the tag: href="~/Views/Home/NewPage" title="Página de Prueba">TestPage/a>

is it posible to do so ?. (add references between pages in the Home directory

I´m working with Visual Studio 2010 C#

What I have tried:

Just to check the functionality, I added another page, in the root directory of my app, and added another tag, (In the Index View) to see if it works, and it did.

My tag: href="../../ViewPage1.aspx" title="esta es otra página">Esta es otra página>

Posted 24-Feb-17 7:33am

Miguel Altamirano Morales

Updated 24-Feb-17 8:05am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-24T08:05:00

Solution 1

In MVC, you don't link to views; you link to actions.

Assuming you have a NewPage action on your HomeController:

C#

public ActionResult NewPage()
{
    return View();
}

you can use the Url.Action helper to link to it:

HTML

<a href='@Url.Action("NewPage", "Home")' title="Página de Prueba">TestPage</a>

Posted 24-Feb-17 8:05am

Richard Deeming

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Miguel Altamirano Morales 24-Feb-17 14:36pm

Thanks for your answer Richard, I DO have an ActionResult "NewPage" in my Home Controller.
I copied the code of the url.Action you sent me and I get the error "Invalid characters in the route path"
Now, if you see my question, I have another href tag to an aspx page that resides in my root directory, and I DON´T have an action in homecontroller, but it works fine !!!

Richard Deeming 26-Feb-17 11:12am

The link that's working is linking to a WebForms page. WebForms pre-dates routing, so by default, you link directly to the page.

With MVC, you can only link to an action, not a view.

If you're getting an error, double-check your RouteConfig class, and the generated URL.

Miguel Altamirano Morales 26-Feb-17 22:33pm

Thanks again, Richard. I noticed that the generated URL is :

http://localhost:57687/@Url.Action(%22TestPage%22,%20%22Home%22)

So, Im´m thinking that maybe the '%22' characters (they´re supposed to be quotes) are the ones causing the error. This address is exactly how it is showed in the navigator. I´m going to try to replace those characters using their ascii codes in a string, or, there is a reason why my app is doin this ?, some kind of configuration or something ?.

Please excuse me if I sound too naive. This is my first MVC app. I´m very aware I have to go deeper in studying this. I don´t know how to do even what you are telling men.

Richard Deeming 27-Feb-17 5:33am

That's odd. Are you definitely generating the link in an MVC view, or is it a WebForm?

Miguel Altamirano Morales 27-Feb-17 12:28pm

The two '<a' tags are located in the Index.aspx page in the Views/Home Folder. One of them points to an aspx page in the root directory of the app (href="../../ViewPage1.aspx") and it Works fine.

The other tries to navigate to an aspx page in the same Views/Home directory and it fails. Originally said that the resource is not found ((~/Views/Home</TestPage.aspx) and with the @url.Action helper it generates invalid characters. Yes, it´s a link between views.

I´m going to go deeper in my studies of the subject and see if I can solve this while I´m learning more. Sometimes that happens.

Thank you very much Richard !!

Richard Deeming 27-Feb-17 13:45pm

So is Index.aspx a WebForms page, or an MVC view using the ASPX view engine?

If it's an MVC view, try:

<a href='<%: Url.Action("TestPage", "Home") %>' ...

If it's a WebForms page, try:

<a runat="server" href="~/Home/TestPage" ...

Miguel Altamirano Morales 27-Feb-17 14:00pm

Yeeeesss !!!. It´s a MVC View using the ASPX Engine.

I put the code in my markup and worked fine. You were right since the beggining, the problem was the code, it had a '@' and not the '<%' simbol.

Well, thank you very much Richard, you're a nice person. God Bless you and I hope to be in touch with you again.
I´ll accept your answer. See you !!