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Senjuti Mahapatra
Senjuti Mahapatra

Reputation: 2590

Default url in route.config to be put as a url of an action method in area

I want the default action method to be called in route.config should be the action method of an area. So I have done something like this:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{*favicon}", new { favicon = @"(.*/)?favicon.ico(/.*)?" });

    routes.MapRoute(
                    name: "Default",
                    url: "{culture}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                    defaults: new { culture = "en", controller = "LocationCon", action = "LocationIndex",  id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                    namespaces: new[] { "Locator.Areas.LocationArea.Controllers" }
                ); 
}

Here - LocationIndex is the action name, LocationCon is the controller and LocationArea as area. This is not working. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 162

Answers (1)

Tetsuya Yamamoto
Tetsuya Yamamoto

Reputation: 24957

I think that No resource found error originated from MVC view engine, where your view engine still using default parameters to find proper cshtml file even action methods executed successfully.

AFAIK, by default MVC view engine searching view files in Project/Views/ControllerName and Project/Views/Shared directory, which your Project/Culture/ControllerName doesn't included.

You can configure custom view engine to search corresponding view files like example below:

using System.Web.Mvc;

public class ViewEngine : RazorViewEngine
{
    public ViewEngine()
    {
            MasterLocationFormats = new[]
            {
                 // your layout cshtml files here
            };

            ViewLocationFormats = new[]
            {
                 // your view cshtml files here. {0} = action name, {1} = controller name
                 // example:
                 "~/Culture/{1}/{0}.cshtml"
            };
            PartialViewLocationFormats = ViewLocationFormats;

            FileExtensions = new[]
            {
                "cshtml"
            };
    }
}

Hence, on Global.asax file place your custom view engine on Application_Start method:

protected void Application_Start()
{
      AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
      ...
      // other code here
      ...
      ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new ViewEngine()); // add your custom view engine above
}

CMIIW.

Upvotes: 1

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