title: Multiple text boxes used for filtering/searching in MVC C#
body: <p>I am trying to create a form in MVC C# that will allow a user to input a Last Name, First Name, Department, Year and click a Search button that will bring back a list of employees based off the inputted search criteria.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is allowing multiple search textbox criteria into one search button.  </p>
  
  <p>I am able to hardcode values into an html actionlink like below and it works but unable to grab the values from the textboxes.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%= Html.ActionLink("Results", "Results", new { lastName = "Smith", 
      firstName = "", dept = "", year = "2008" } )%&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would really just like to have four textboxes and a search button to bring the list back from the database.  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help.</p>