Kent

Don't ask why, but I decided to try to use the porridge that was "just right" in VB while trying to create a site using the new ASP.NET MVC framework. As I will no doubt forget the syntax to use in about 42 seconds, I'm including it here. Others may find it useful as well.

ActionLinks:

<%=Html.ActionLink(Of ViewEngines.CategoryController) _
    (Function(c As ViewEngines.CategoryController) c.Add(), _
    "Add Category")%>

Form definition:

<%  Using Html.Form(Of ViewEngines.CategoryController) _
    (Function(c As ViewEngines.CategoryController) c.Update(ViewData.CategoryID), _
    FormMethod.Post)%>

The Function(c as ViewEngines.CategoryController) c.blah syntax is the equivalent syntax to the shorter, more symbolrific C# syntax: c => c.Add().

That was still giving me an error. What I found (see below) was that the trick seems to be to change your methods into functions (instead of the Subs that I was using), and it would work:

    Public Function Update(ByVal id As Integer) As Object
        Dim c As New Category()
        c.LoadByKey(id)
        c.LoadFromPost()
        c.Save()
        RedirectToAction("List")
        Return Nothing
    End Function

Now someone can please tell me I'm wrong, and there is a simpler solution. Barring that, I think I might stick with using the "less correct" versions of the calls (or, more likely, using C# for all my MVC sites)

(Special thanks to Chuwanga on the asp.net forums for the original solution. I wouldn't have figured out that last step)