MVC MapPageRoute and ActionLink

Question

I have created a page route so I can integrate my MVC application with a few WebForms pages that exist in my project:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    // register the report routes
    routes.MapPageRoute("ReportTest",
        "reports/test",
        "~/WebForms/Test.aspx"
    );

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default", // Route name
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } 
    );
}

This has created a problem whenever I use Html.ActionLink in my Views:

<%: Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home") %>

When I load the page in the browser the link appears like:

http://localhost:12345/reports/test?action=Index&controller=Home

Has anyone run into this before? How can I fix this?

Answer 1

My guess is that you need to add some parameter options to the MapPageRoute declaration. So if you have more than one webforms page in the WebForms directory this works well.

routes.MapPageRoute  ("ReportTest",
                      "reports/{pagename}",
                      "~/WebForms/{pagename}.aspx");

PS: You may also want to have a look at the RouteExistingFiles property of RouteCollection

An alternative would be to use

<%=Html.RouteLink("Home","Default", new {controller = "Home", action = "Index"})%>