ASP.NET MVC `Html.ActionLink` between “Areas”

Question

I have added a new Area to my MVC3 project and I am trying to link from the _Layout page to the new Area. I have added an Area called \'Admin\' that has a controller \'Meets\'.<

Answer 1

I figured this out - I created a new test project and did exactly the same thing I was doing before and it worked...then after further inspection of all things route-related between the two projects I found a discrepancy.

In the global.asax file in my BCC application, there was a rogue line of code which had inexplicably appeared:

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            // Problem here
            routes.Clear();

            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

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

        protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

            RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        }

As you can see where my comment is, at some time or other I had placed the routes.Clear() call at the beginning of RegisterRoutes, which meant after I had registered the Areas in Application_Start, I was then immediately clearing what I had just registered.

Thanks for the help...it did ultimately lead to my salvation!