HtmlHelpers.ActionLink should have the option to generate no content when an action does not match

[glennc]

Today some customers do it through routing and try and parse the content of the generated tag to remove the whole optional link. The alternative is to build many customized views per country, or have a separate knowledge to what actions are available.

[yishaigalatzer]

Current behavior - we throw

[yishaigalatzer]

For this scenario the user should use

@{
var url = Url.Action(...);

    if (url != null)
    {
        <a href="@url" />
    }
}

A user can also make custom ViewComponent or better yet a TagHelper for this