Pass entire object from view to controller in ASP.NET MVC 5

Question

Is there a way to pass entire object from ASP.NET MVC 5 View to a Controller? This is my situation:

• I have a View that displays all rows from a DB table

Answer 1

Assuming that your Update View isn't of type IEnumerable...

You just need to pass the ID of the record that you want to send to the Update view...

Like so:

@Html.Action("Update me!", "Update", new { id = item.ID })

Then your Update action would look like this:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Update(int id)
{
    var parameter = db/* connection string variable */.TableName.Find(id);
    return View(parameter);
}

Then your link should work appropriately.

Hope this helps!