ASP.NET MVC: Accessing binded model in controller without using a form AND Ajax <p>I have the following scenario:</p> <pre><code>@model IEnumerable&lt;UI.Models.Customer&gt; @grid.GetHtml( columns: grid.Columns( grid.Column( format: @&lt;text&gt; @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "EditAct", ???) &lt;/text&gt; ), grid.Column( format: @&lt;text&gt; @Html.TextBox("Name", (string)item.Name) &lt;/text&gt; ) ) ) </code></pre> <p>model is just a List consisting of 3 Customer's (Customer is a dummy class with only 2 properties, i.e. ID and Name)</p> <p>Now, i want to be able to capture in the controller action "EditAct "the Customer, which the user want's to edit. Those were the things, that i desperately tried without success:</p> <hr> <p>1) I tried to fill in ??? with a</p> <pre><code>new {customer: item} </code></pre> <p>and to capture it in controller this way:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult SampleFormParams(Customer customer) {...} </code></pre> <p>This approach does not work, because HTML anchor links uses GET and we can't send an object with GET.</p> <hr> <p>2) It tried to fill in ??? with a</p> <pre><code>new {customer: jsSerializer.Serialize(item)} </code></pre> <p>and to capture it in controller this way:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult SampleFormParams(String customer) { //deserialize(customer) } </code></pre> <p>This also does not work, because "item" is not a Customer object, but it is a WebGridRow object.</p> <hr> <p>3) It tried to fill in ??? with a</p> <pre><code>new {customer: item.ID} </code></pre> <p>and to capture it in controller this way:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult SampleFormParams(int id) { ... } </code></pre> <p>I wanted to know if it would be possible to access the whole IEnumerable model, so that i can find the specified customer in the model using the given id ?</p> <hr> <p>So the question is, is there any way, that i can access model directly just with an anchor i.e. ActionLink <br/> - without using a form> AND without using Ajax ?</p> <p>I also checked the Custom Model Binder, but it is also based on a form>.</p>