Hi,

I have a question that has pretty much been asked here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/780643/asp-net-mvc-html-actionlink-keeping-route-value-i-dont-want

However, the final solution is a kludge, pure and simple and I really would like to understand why this happens, if someone can please explain it to me?

For completeness, it is possible to recreate the scenario very easily:

• Create a new MVC web app.
• Run it up.
• Visit the About tab Modify the URL to read /Home/About/Flib - This obviously takes you to the action with an id of 'Flib' which we don't care about.

Notice that the top menu link to About now actually links to /Home/About/Flib - this is wrong as far as I can see, as I now have absolutely no way of using site links to get back to /Home/About

I really don't understand why I should be forced to modify all of my Html.ActionLinks to include new { id = string.Empty } for the routevalues and null for the htmlAttribs. This seems especially out of whack because I already specify id = 0 as part of the route itself.

Hopefully I'm missing a trick here.