Accessing Form Data Into the Controller Using the Request Object in ASP.NET MVC

Accessing Form Data Into the Controller Using the Request Object in ASP.NET MVC

Written by The .NET Mentor , Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 3:43 PM

Accessing form data inside a controller is a very common scenario.

Note: Post updated with source code files posted on gist.github.com

Steps required to do:

Create a controller with Get and Post methods
Inside the HttpPost action method access the form data values using the Request object
Create a Create.cshtml View file with a form using Html.BeginForm
Create a breakpoint and check the form values

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace WebApplication1.Controllers { public class FormDataController : Controller { // GET: FormData public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } // Create two Action Methods for Get and Post request [HttpGet] public ActionResult Create() { return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult CreateWithRequest() { return View(); } } }

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace WebApplication1.Controllers { public class FormDataController : Controller { // GET: FormData public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } // Create two Action Methods for Get and Post request [HttpGet] public ActionResult Create() { return View(); } [HttpPost] public ActionResult CreateWithRequest() { string name = Request.Form["name"]; string email = Request.Form["email"]; return View(); } } }

@{ Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; ViewBag.Title = "Create"; } @using (Html.BeginForm("CreateWithRequest", "FormData")) { <input type="text" name="name" required/> <input type="text" name="email" required/> <input type="submit" value="submit"/> }

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Accessing Form Data Into the Controller Using the Request Object in ASP.NET MVC