How to make a submit button with MVC 4

Question

I am trying to write a code that takes the last name and first name from user input and stores the values in a data table with MVC4. I have added the following code under Accountcontroller.cs

that will create a submit button. Once the user clicks the submit button it would add the user input to the data set.

private void button_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) 

{ 
   SqlConnection cs = new SqlConnection("Data Source = FSCOPEL-PC; ....

   SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter();

   da.insertCommand = new SqlCommand(" INSERT INTO TABLE VALUES ( Firstname, Lastname,  )
}

I have also added the following code under logincs.html that will create the submit button, once the user logins.

   <button type="submit" id="btnSave" name="Command" value="Save">Save</button>

Answer 1

In MVC you have to create a form and submit that form to the Controller's Action method. The syntax for creating form given as:

View:

@using (Html.BeginForm("YourActionName", "ControllerName"))
{
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.FirstName)
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.LastName)
    <input type="submit" value="Submit Data" id="btnSubmit" />
}

Controller:

  public ActionResult YourActionName(UserModel model)
       {
          //some operations goes here
          return View(); //return some view to the user
       }

Model:

public class UserModel
{
   public string FirstName { get; set; }
   public string LastName { get; set; }
}