I have implemented EF 6 in my project, since I need to add bookings to a booking table stored in a MSSQL Database. I've done all the steps required to add the EF functionality, but I can't seem to generate a link to my Create view, which is what I need.

I created the ADO.NET Entity Data Model, which has this structure: https://i.imgur.com/y0oNnWn.png

And created a controller to scaffold my CRUD views.

public class BookingsController : Controller {...}

Now, I have all my views ready, but I can't link to them using normal MVC means.

I have a button which needs to redirect to the create view. This is what i tried so far:

<a href='@Url.Action("Index", "Bookings")'><button class="btn_1" type="button">Book dette sommerhus</button></a>

Right now I am just redirecting to the index view for testing purposes, but what is generated in the HTML is just an empty a tag with a nested button. The href attribute isn't even generated.

I tried creating an action link as well:

@Html.ActionLink("Bookinger", "Index", "Bookings")

Which just sends me to this URL: http://localhost:49742/umbraco/Surface/Bookings

And returns a 404 resource not found error.

What am I doing wrong? Can I not use the standard MVC way to access my views? Do I need to inherit from the Umbraco controllers?