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balach321

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How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 06, 2011 10:23 AM|LINK
On a controller page i am using two ActionResult functions and the same variable is being called on two different ActionResult functions, i want to take the value of the variable using viewbag as below. pleae guide what is the exact syntax.
```
@Html.ActionLink(ViewBag.Lang, ViewBag.Lang, "Home")
```
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Re: How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 06, 2011 01:24 PM|LINK

@Html.ActionLink(ViewBag.Lang.ToString(), ViewBag.Lang.ToString(), "Home") does not work?

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Re: How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 06, 2011 08:46 PM|LINK

ViewBag nor ViewData dont work as actionlink parameter.

another option you have is that create new property of Lang in you model,

and do like this:

@Html.ActionLink(Model.Lang.ToString(),Model.Lang.ToString(), "Home")

i tested this and it worked.
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vampire203

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Re: How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 06, 2011 08:49 PM|LINK

nevermind. this should work :

@Html.ActionLink(ViewData["Lang"].ToString(),ViewData["Lang"].ToString(), "Home")

so use ViewData["Lang"] instead of ViewBag.Lang in your controller.

the reason that viewbag doesnt work while viewdata works is i think viewbag is dynamic type while viewdata is an object.

correct me if i am wrong.
- Edited by vampire203 on Oct 06, 2011 08:52 PM
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theeyeabove

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Re: How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 07, 2011 11:29 PM|LINK
You just need to cast it, nothing else so write it:
```
@Html.ActionLink((string)ViewBag.Lang, (string)ViewBag.Lang, "Home")
```
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Re: How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 11, 2011 01:24 AM|LINK
Hi balach,

You are using this overload method of ActionLink():
```
ActionLink Method (HtmlHelper, String, String, String)
```
So you should change the value of the ViewBag to string. If it is still not work, please contact with me. About ActionLink Method, please check here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.html.linkextensions.actionlink.aspx

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- Edited by Young Yang - MSFT on Oct 13, 2011 01:13 AM
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sudheervm

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Re: How to call viewbag value in cshtml in Html.ActionLink().

Oct 12, 2011 04:59 AM|LINK
```
Try this

@{
    string lang = ViewBag.Lang;
    @Html.ActionLink(lang, lang, "Home");
    }
```