How do I redirect to a website using MVC?

I am having a hard time figuring out how to redirect to an outside source.

in my code, 开发者_StackOverflowI have

<%= Html.ActionLink("New Name Search", "Index") %> which will allow me to navigate within the code.

how do I redirect to ...google for example?

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<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

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The purpose of the ActionLink helper is to generate links that will direct the user to a controller action that you've defined.

If you want to navigate the user to an outside source you should just use a regular anchor tag.

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Response.Redirect("http://google.com/");

(It's not really MVC-specific, by the way)

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If you are redirecting from your controller (or action filter, etc.) you can use the RedirectResult as your ActionResult type:

RedirectResult("http://www.google.com");

This is essentially doing a Response.Redirect, but is the preferred way of sticking with ASP.NET MVC conventions.

If you are just creating a link inside a View, just use <a href="http://www.google.com">Click to go to Google</a>.

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"Redirecting" means many things.

If you just want to show a link that redirects the user to another URL you can use the anchor tag normally in you templates.

<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

Now, if you want to redirect the user within the controller, call the Redirect Method.

Result("http://www.google.com");