How to redirect to Index from another controller

Question

I have been looking through trying to find some way to redirect to an Index view from another controller   public ActionResult Index                          ApplicationController viewModel   new ApplicationController         return RedirectToAction  Index   viewModel       This is what I tried right now  Now the code I was given to has a ActionLink that links to the page I need to Redirect too    Html ActionLink  Bally Applications      Application

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You can use the overloads method RedirectToAction string actionName  string controllerName    Example   RedirectToAction nameof HomeController Index    Home

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try   public ActionResult Index         return RedirectToAction  actionName           or     return RedirectToAction  actionName    controllerName           or     return RedirectToAction  actionName    controllerName   new     routeValues  for example     id   5         and in  cshtml view    Html ActionLink  linkText   actionName     OR    Html ActionLink  linkText   actionName   controllerName     OR    Html ActionLink  linkText    actionName    controllerName        new      routeValues forexample  id   6 or leave blank or use null            new      htmlAttributes forexample   class    my-class  or leave blank or use null         Notice using null in final expression is not recommended  and is better to use a blank new    instead of null

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Tag helpers   lt a asp-controller  quot OtherController quot  asp-action  quot Index quot  class  quot btn btn-primary quot  gt  Back to Other Controller View  lt  a gt   In the controller cs have a method  public async Task lt IActionResult gt  Index         ViewBag Title    quot Titles quot       return View await Your Model or Service method

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You can use local redirect  Following codes are jumping the HomeController s Index page   public class SharedController   Controller                  GET    lt controller gt           public IActionResult  Layout string btnLogout                        if  btnLogout    null                                return LocalRedirect    Index                               return View

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Complete answer   Net Core 3 1   Most answers here are correct but taken a bit out of context  so I will provide a full-fledged answer which works for Asp Net Core 3 1  For completeness  sake    Route  health     ApiController  public class HealthController   Controller        HttpGet  some health url        public ActionResult SomeHealthMethod          Route  v2     ApiController  public class V2Controller   Controller        HttpGet  some url        public ActionResult SomeV2Method                 return RedirectToAction  SomeHealthMethod    Health       omit  Controller            If you try to use any of the url-specific strings  e g   some health url   it will not work

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Use the overloads that take the controller name too     return RedirectToAction  Index    MyController      and   Html ActionLink  Link Name   Index    MyController   null  null

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You can use the following code   return RedirectToAction  Index    Home      See RedirectToAction

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