title: How do I open a MVC view from the controller they way I would open it from Razor code?
body: <p>New to Razor and asp.net MVC, so please take it easy on me.  I'm editing a web site created by someone else.</p>
  
  <p>I need to open a view from a controller.  This view is the home page for my web site, so there's no model for it; there's no information being populated on the page.  The view is originally opened from a menu where the Razor code looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Html.ActionLink(
        "Application Summary"
      , "MerchantApplicationSummary"
      , "Admin"
      , new { session = 1 }
      , new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "Get" }
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I open the same view, MerchantApplicationSummary, from the .cs controller?</p>
  
  <p>I've been opening views from the controller like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>return View("Application", obj_App);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>, but when I try that I get an error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'CarmelFinancialWeb.Models.ModelApplication', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'PagedList.IPagedList`1[CarmelFinancialWeb.Models.ModelMerchantSummary]'.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Can some one show me how to open the view from the controller?  Thank you!</p>