Is there a general ASP.NET MVC helper for generating links?

Question

I know of the ASP.NET MVC ActionLink helper for generating links to the application's actions, and find it very useful. However, I haven't been able to find a corresponding helper for generating links based on absolute URLS (i.e., to external resources). Is there a helper for this purpose?

Edit: To make my question absolutely clear, I'm (obviously) not looking for a way to generate the URL part, in the way that ActionLink generates action URLs. I'm just interested in safe and easy hyperlink generation.

Answer 1

I'm afraid there isn't. But you can write your own helper for that if you want the view to look nice with the consistent Helper formatting.

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/creating-custom-html-helpers-cs