asp.net-mvc - adding an action link to an Html table generated by an html helper MVC4

Question

I have a Htmlhelper extension method that generates an Html table from any List<T>

I have to add functionality to make the data from any given column the ability to be a Link.

I have created a new class that contains all the data needed to make a link

  public class ColumnLinkDescription
  {
    //controller name
    public string Controller { get; set; }
    //Action name
    public string Action { get; set; }
    //parameter
    public string ID { get; set; }
  }

i also added a method that will try to generate a link if the column has a Link description

    private static string TryGenerateLink<T>(HtmlHelper helper, T d, TableHeaderDetails h, string value)
    {
      if (h.Link != null)
      {
        var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(helper.ViewContext.RequestContext);
        var url = urlHelper.Action(h.Link.Controller,
        h.Link.Action,
        new { id = d.GetType().GetProperty(h.Link.ID) });
        value= url;
      }
      return value;
    }

this ties into my Table maker in the following way:

      value= ((d.GetType().GetProperty(h.Name).GetValue(d, null)) ?? "").ToString();
      td.InnerHtml = TryGenerateLink<T>(helper, d, h, value);
      tr.InnerHtml += td.ToString();

I tried it out but the output was:

<td class=" ">/ActionTest/ControllerTest/Int32%20ArticleCode</td>

using the definition:

new ColumnLinkDescription{Controller = "ControllerTest", Action="ActionTest", ID="ArticleCode"}

It looks like I should be using a differnet approach than urlHelper.Action and I am having a tough time obtaining the value of ArticleCode and adding that as a parameter to the link.

EDIT1:

I got the value of the parameter working by a simple modification in TryGenerateLink()

var url = urlHelper.Action(h.Link.Controller, h.Link.Action, new { id = d.GetType().GetProperty(h.Link.ID).GetValue(d,null) });

Output:

<td class=" ">/ActionTest/ControllerTest/96776</td>

so the only issue remaining is the correct generation of a hyperlink