Nested areas in MVC 2 / MVC 3 / MVC 4

Question

Since MVC 2 we can create areas easily. Now my question is related to nested areas (areas inside of areas).

Select my "father" area folder, Right-mouse-click > Add > NO option for a new Area.

Is it possible to do it in some other way ? or will this option be available in the near future?

Answer 1

I realise this is an old question but I'll answer it in case anyone else is trying to figure it out. A solution to this is to create areas that use a different routing value at a lower level than area, so for example your RouteConfig would look something like this:

public class RouteConfig
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// A function that registers the default navigation route.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="routes">The RouteCollection to act on.</param>
    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
            var route = routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{area}/{subArea}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { area = "DefaultArea", controller = "Home", action = "Splash", id = UrlParameter.Optional, section = "Customer" },
            namespaces: new string[] { "Application.Controllers" });
        }
    }

And one of your sub-area registrations might look like this:

public class ApplicationSubAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration 
{
    public override string AreaName 
    {
        get 
        {
            return "ApplicationSubArea";
        }
    }

    public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context) 
    {
        context.MapRoute(
            "SubArea_default",
            "Area/SubArea/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
            new string[] { "Application.Areas.AreaName.SubAreaName.Controllers" }
        );
    }
}

After reading that, does "area" still look like a word? Because it doesn't to me.

P.S. You can do this recursively as many times as you like (theoretically) such that for example you could do

url: "{area}/{subArea}/{subSubArea}/{subSubSubArea}/{evenMoreSubArea}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",

in your RouteConfig.cs and

"Area/SubArea/SubSubArea/SubSubSubArea/EvenMoreSubArea/{controller}/{action}/{id}",

in your area registration.

Answer 2

For now there isn't any information telling if there will be nested areas.

In the future maybe this will change.

Answer 3

Using the idea of Multi-project areas as a start, I guess you could recursively create more nested areas.