ASP.NET Hyperlinks

.NET
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Hello,

I’ve just started playing around with ASP.NET.

I’m using the MVC model of ASP.NET. I’m working on creating the main master right now.

I created most of my stuff with good old HTML, except for the ContentPlaceHolders.

I created the hyperlinks with regular anchor tags. I created my various controllers and views for each of my main pages.

In the anchor tags, I placed the URLs that would be used for in HTML. For example, I have a page called “Register”, so I have a controller “RegisterController”, then it’s Index View.

My question is: The code editor tells me it can’t find the file in the href attribute. Is there a better way to do hyperlinks in ASP.NET, or do I just need to deal with those warnings?

Thanks.

2

Look at the Html.ActionLink method. It’s an extension method of the HtmlHelper class for views. For example, to link back to the homecontroller.index action…

<%: Html.ActionLink(“Back to Index”, “Index”, “Home”) %>

There are several overrides with all the needed parameters.

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<html>

<script language=“C#” runat=server>

void Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) {
// Set hyperlink to “~”, which indicates application root.
HyperLink1.NavigateUrl = “~”;
}

</script>

<body>

&lt;h3&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;Simple asp:hyperlink Sample&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;form runat=server&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;

    &lt;asp:hyperlink id=HyperLink1 runat="server"&gt;
        Go To QuickStart
    &lt;/asp:hyperlink&gt;

&lt;/form&gt;

</body>

</html>

This code May help you.

4

No, that code doesn’t help when you are in MVC. Really doesn’t help when you are not in MVC too, but that’s a different story.

Best bet for anything MVC is to use Html.ActionLink or it’s cousin Url.Action.

5

I’m learning ASP.net 4 as well, not the MVC part yet.

If you click on the C:\ part in the solution explorer and hit F4 it will bring up the properties window. Change the virtual path to a /, and make sure you point to the file path like this:

url=“~/Default.aspx”