The RemoveArticle.aspx view (p. 242.) has two submit button named both "remove", and has the value "Yes" or "No" respectively.

I don't understand, how the RemoveArticle action method (p.212.) get the button's value ("Yes" or "No") as string parameter, when the view page is inherited from the article object, and the Url.Action set only the articleID parameter to the viewData.model.ArticleID.

The default route doesn't contains any other parameter but the ArticleID too.

Thanks in Advance

Gabor

You might go back and read the text at the bottom of page 212 and top of 213.

If you run the code you will find that the first time into the removeArticle (and removeArticle control) view there is no value for the remove parameter (You've clicked on a remove link) and this is a confirmation where you must enter yes or no to proceed.

Initially I thought this might be a case where it would have been better to have an HTTP Get controller and an HTTP Post controller, but in retrospect it makes more sense to do it the way that it is. However, maybe there should be a redirect to a different location once yes or no is selected, but that would mess with the message that displays the choice made.

Steve

This works because any input value including buttons, select, input, and textarea all send their value back when a post or get is made. This is probably a little different than how you thought of them in Web Forms, but this is a function of the HTML specification that all the browsers support.

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Thanks Nick.