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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")

Any help please?

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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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Ok this worked. I tried this earlier must of been a typo when I did it before. –  cjohnson2136 Oct 25 '11 at 16:05
    
@cjohnson2136: don't forget to accept as answer then ;) –  musefan Oct 25 '11 at 16:11
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did that would of sooner but there was a timer stopping me –  cjohnson2136 Oct 25 '11 at 16:12
    
@cjohnson2136: No probs, I heard about this timer earlier, never know it before, perhaps it is new - or I don't ask enough questions ;) –  musefan Oct 25 '11 at 16:33
    
Ahh, for us MVC newbies this was extremely helpful. Just simply redirecting to another view in a different folder represented by a different controller was getting by me until I read this. –  atconway Aug 2 '12 at 18:31
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up vote 5 down vote

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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In regard to your notice, for what reason is it better to use new {} instead of null? –  musefan Dec 14 '11 at 8:56
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You can use the following code:

return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");

See RedirectToAction

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I tried that and it did not work. It gave me page could not be found error –  cjohnson2136 Oct 25 '11 at 16:02
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