MVC : The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'k' of non-nullable type 'System.Int32'

Question

I am new to MVC. In My Application , I'm Retrieving the Data from Mydatabase. but when I run my Application it show Error Like This this is my url

http://localhost:7317/Employee/DetailsData/4



  Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: The parameters dictionary contains a null entry for parameter 'k' of non-nullable type 'System.Int32' for method 'System.Web.Mvc.ActionResult DetailsData(Int32)' in 'MVCViewDemo.Controllers.EmployeeController'. An optional parameter must be a reference type, a nullable type, or be declared as an optional parameter.
Parameter name: parameters

this is my web.config file code

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="EmployeeContext" connectionString="Server=.;Database=mytry;integrated security=true; ProviderName=System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

this is my Employee Model Class(Employee.cs)

[Table("emp")]    /* to map tablename with our class name*/
    public class Employee
    {
        public int EmpId { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string Gender { get; set; }
        public string City { get; set; }

    }

My EmployeeContext.cs Model class

 public class EmployeeContext:DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
    }

my EmployeeController.cs

 public ActionResult DetailsData(int k)
        {

            EmployeeContext Ec = new EmployeeContext();
            Employee emp = Ec.Employees.Single(X => X.EmpId == k);           
            return View(emp);
        }

and my view

<h2>DetailsData</h2>
@Model.Name<br />
@Model.City<br />
@Model.Gender<br />
@Model.EmpId

Answer 1

It appears that you are using the default route which is defined as this:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

The key part of that route is the {id} piece. If you look at your action method, your parameter is k instead of id. You need to change your action method to this so that it matches the route parameter:

// change int k to int id
public ActionResult DetailsData(int id)

If you wanted to leave your parameter as k, then you would change the URL to be:

http://localhost:7317/Employee/DetailsData?k=4

You also appear to have a problem with your connection string. In your web.config, you need to change your connection string to this (provided by haim770 in another answer that he deleted):

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="EmployeeContext"
       connectionString="Server=.;Database=mytry;integrated security=True;"
       providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

Answer 2

It seems that your action needs k but ModelBinder can not find it (from form, or request or view data or ..) Change your action to this:

public ActionResult DetailsData(int? k)
    {

        EmployeeContext Ec = new EmployeeContext();
        if (k != null)
        {
           Employee emp = Ec.Employees.Single(X => X.EmpId == k.Value);

           return View(emp);
        }
        return View();
    }

Answer 3

I faced this error becouse I sent the Query string with wrong format

http://localhost:56110/user/updateuserinfo?Id=55?Name=Basheer&Phone=(111)%20111-1111
------------------------------------------^----(^)-----------^---...
--------------------------------------------must be &

so make sure your Query String or passed parameter in the right format