Mapping individual buttons on ASP.NET MVC View to controller actions

Question

I have an application where I need the user to be able to update or delete rows of data from the database. The rows are displayed to the user using a foreach loop in the .aspx

Answer 1

You can use multiple forms, and set the action on the form to be like this:

So you will have YourController/YourAction/1, YourController/YourAction/2 and so on.

There is no need to give different names to the different textboxes, just call them txtName, txtDesc etc (or even better, get rid of those txt prefixes). Since they are in different forms, they won't mix up.

Then on the action you do something like

public ActionResult YourAction(int id, string username, string description)

Where username, description are the same names that you used on the form controls (so they are mapped automatically). The id parameter will be automatically mapped to the number you put on the form action.