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nVentimiglia
nVentimiglia

Reputation: 1908

MVC5 Route To Null Area Not Working

I am working with a default MVC5 Web application with the Web Api 'extension'. The solution comes with a 'web' Account controller, 'web' Home controller, a 'api' Values controller as well as a Help area with its own controller. The help controller details my api in html.

This is all default.

My issue is when I am in the Help area some of my action links (on the top menu) do not work. I expected the action on the top menu (Login, ect) to return to the default non-area routes, they did not. They instead redirected to the Help area. The "Application Name" that navigates to root works but Contact,About,Login,Register (ext) do not.

I have tried changing the action links to point to 'null' area, but that does not help.

@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home", new { area = "" }, null)

The Action Links do not have the correct URI when I am within the Help area. When I mouse over the home action link it redirects me to localhost:port/Help. I would Like the action links to redirect back to the default controller routes (No area, Home/Account controller).

LoginPartial

@using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity
@if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
    using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "logoutForm", @class = "navbar-right" }))
    {
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>
            @Html.ActionLink("Hello " + User.Identity.GetUserName() + "!", "Manage", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { title = "Manage" })
        </li>
        <li><a href="javascript:document.getElementById('logoutForm').submit()">Log off</a></li>
    </ul>
    }
}
else
{
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>@Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { id = "registerLink", area = "" })</li>
        <li>@Html.ActionLink("Log in", "Login", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { id = "loginLink", area = "" })</li>
    </ul>
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1530

Answers (1)

Brent Mannering
Brent Mannering

Reputation: 2316

The only thing I can identify as the possible culprit in the LoginPartial is the area property set in the htmlAttributes not the routeValues. However I'm guessing this could have been from trying different things.

Modifying the routeValues seems to be working for me though:

@if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
    using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "logoutForm", @class = "navbar-right" }))
    {
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>
            @Html.ActionLink("Hello " + User.Identity.GetName() + "!", "Manage", "Account", routeValues: new { area = "" }, htmlAttributes: new { title = "Manage" })
        </li>
        <li><a href="javascript:document.getElementById('logoutForm').submit()">Log off</a></li>
    </ul>
    }
}
else
{
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>@Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register", "Account", routeValues: new { area = "" }, htmlAttributes: new { id = "registerLink" })</li>
        <li>@Html.ActionLink("Log in", "Login", "Account", routeValues: new { area = "" }, htmlAttributes: new { id = "loginLink" })</li>
    </ul>
}

Upvotes: 1

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