I am using MVC3 and have Areas in my application. In general, everything works fine, I can navigate to my area (e.g. Admin=Area, Controller=Department) like this:
<%: Html.ActionLink("Departments", "DepartmentIndex", "Department", new { area = "Admin"}, null )%>
However, what I noticed is that if I don't specify the area in my ActionLink, e.g.
<%: Html.ActionLink("Test", "Index", "Home")%>
This will stop working if I have navigated to the "Admin" area. i.e. my url is now http://localhost/myproj/Admin/Home/Index instead of http://localhost/myproj/Home/Index
Any ideas on what is going on here?
My routes are all the defaults when creating an MVC app / Areas. i.e.
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
new[] { "MyProj.Controllers" }
);
}
And my area registration
public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
context.MapRoute(
"Admin_default",
"Admin/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
Is this by design? This posting suggests using RouteLink instead of ActionLink: say to use RouteLink Is it required to have "area" routevalue on actionlink if the application was grouped into areas?
