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 .NET Trainer & Instructor , 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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