Using Html ActionLink to call action on different controller

Question

I am trying to navigate between controllers using ActionLink  I will tell my problem with an example   I am on Index view of Hat controller  and I am trying to use below code to create a link to Details action of Product controller    lt    Html ActionLink  Details    Details    Product   new   id item ID      gt    Instead of creating a link to Details on Product controller  this generates a link to Details action under Hat controller and appends a Length parameter to the end of it   Hat Details 9 Length 7   I am not able to use HTML ActionLink to switch between controllers because of this problem  I will appreciate if you can point me to what I am doing wrong  Thanks  PS  I am using the default route setting that comes with MVC  routes MapRoute  Default     controller   action   id                          new   controller    Home   action    Index   id

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If you grab the MVC Futures assembly  which I would highly recommend  you can then use a generic when creating the ActionLink and a lambda to construct the route    lt   Html ActionLink lt Product gt  c   gt  c Action  o Value     Details      gt    You can get the futures assembly here  http   aspnet codeplex com Release ProjectReleases aspx ReleaseId 24471

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this code worked for me in partial view    lt a href   Content Index SubCategoryId  item Id  gt  item Title lt  a gt

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try it it is working fine     lt   Html ActionLink  Details   Details   Product    new  id item dateID   null   gt

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Note that Details is a  View  page under the  Products  folder   ProductId is the primary key of the table   Here is the line from Index cshtml    Html ActionLink  Details    Details   Products    new     id item ProductId    null

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What you want is this overload      linkText  actionName  controllerName  routeValues  htmlAttributes  lt   Html ActionLink  Details    Details         Product   new  id   item ID   null    gt

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An alternative solution would be to use the Url helper object to set the href attribute of an  lt a gt  tag like    lt a href   Url Action  Details    Product  new   id item ID       gt Details lt  a gt

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You re hitting the wrong the overload of ActionLink  Try this instead    lt    Html ActionLink  Details    Details    Product   new RouteValueDictionary new   id item ID       gt

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I would recommend writing these helpers using named parameters for the sake of clarity as follows    Html ActionLink      linkText   Details       actionName   Details       controllerName   Product       routeValues  new           id   item ID            htmlAttributes  null

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With that parameters you re triggering the wrong overloaded function method   What worked for me    lt    Html ActionLink  Details    Details    Product   new   id item ID    null    gt    It fires HtmlHelper ActionLink string linkText  string actionName  string controllerName  object routeValues  object htmlAttributes   I m using MVC 4   Cheerio

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