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Pbirkoff
Pbirkoff

Reputation: 4702

Routing not working after update to Mvc 3

I just updated my Asp.Net Mvc 2 project to Mvc 3 and suddenly my links stopped working. When I open a page, all links on the page redirect back to itself.

Also, some redirects to actions that used to work in the previous version don't working anymore. It keeps saying 'No route in the route table matches the supplied values.'. I used RouteDebug to see what was going on, but couldn't find any problems.

Update

Here's one of the routes i'm using:

// ** Standard route. **
     context.MapRoute(
        "group_default", // Route name
        "{language}/{organisation}/Research.aspx/{controller}/{action}/{organisationId}/{parameter}/",
        // URL with parameters
        new
        {
           area = "research",
           language = "en-US",
           organisation = "",
           controller = "Home",
           action = "Index",
           organisationId = UrlParameter.Optional,
           parameter = UrlParameter.Optional
        }, // Parameter defaults
        new[] { "Project.Web.Areas.Research.Controllers" }
     );

As you can see in my answer below, the problem was caused by two UrlParameter.Optional after each other. This is a bug in Mvc 3

Upvotes: 1

Views: 553

Answers (1)

Pbirkoff
Pbirkoff

Reputation: 4702

Wow, after about 4 hours of debugging I found the problem: It's a bug in Mvc 3. Because of the bug, it's not possible to use two UrlParameter.Optional after each other. Phil Haack has a nice blog-post about it: http://haacked.com/archive/2011/02/20/routing-regression-with-two-consecutive-optional-url-parameters.aspx

Hope this will help others (and save them some time)

Upvotes: 2

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