If you want to go all fancy-pants, here's how you can extend it to be able to do this:
@(Html.ActionLink(x => x.Details(), article.Title, new { id = article.ArticleID }))
You will need to put this in the System.Web.Mvc namespace:
public static class MyProjectExtensions
{
public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression> expression, string linkText)
{
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext, htmlHelper.RouteCollection);
var link = new TagBuilder("a");
string actionName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
string controllerName = typeof(TController).Name.Replace("Controller", "");
link.MergeAttribute("href", urlHelper.Action(actionName, controllerName));
link.SetInnerText(linkText);
return new MvcHtmlString(link.ToString());
}
public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression> expression, string linkText, object routeValues)
{
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext, htmlHelper.RouteCollection);
var link = new TagBuilder("a");
string actionName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
string controllerName = typeof(TController).Name.Replace("Controller", "");
link.MergeAttribute("href", urlHelper.Action(actionName, controllerName, routeValues));
link.SetInnerText(linkText);
return new MvcHtmlString(link.ToString());
}
public static MvcHtmlString ActionLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Expression> expression, string linkText, object routeValues, object htmlAttributes) where TController : Controller
{
var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext, htmlHelper.RouteCollection);
var attributes = AnonymousObjectToKeyValue(htmlAttributes);
var link = new TagBuilder("a");
string actionName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
string controllerName = typeof(TController).Name.Replace("Controller", "");
link.MergeAttribute("href", urlHelper.Action(actionName, controllerName, routeValues));
link.MergeAttributes(attributes, true);
link.SetInnerText(linkText);
return new MvcHtmlString(link.ToString());
}
private static Dictionary AnonymousObjectToKeyValue(object anonymousObject)
{
var dictionary = new Dictionary();
if (anonymousObject == null) return dictionary;
foreach (PropertyDescriptor propertyDescriptor in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(anonymousObject))
{
dictionary.Add(propertyDescriptor.Name, propertyDescriptor.GetValue(anonymousObject));
}
return dictionary;
}
}
This includes two overrides for Route Values and HTML Attributes, also, all of your views would need to add: @using YourProject.Controllers or you can add it to your web.config