I'm currently playing around with areas and routing within them. What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to have a URL that looks like this;

PracticeAdmin/Practice/[Practice Name]

which I would then be able to add things like Edit and Delete to the end of.

I have achieved this in the past when not working with areas by adding this annotation to the action

[Route("PracticeAdmin/Practices/{practiceName}")]
public ActionResult Details(string practiceName)

this would produce the URLs that I would like. The problem I am having is that when I am trying to do this when using areas I get links that look like this;

PracticeAdmin/Practices?practiceName=Practice1

which is not what I am looking for.

The code that I am using to try and produce this with is

PracticeAdminAreaRegistration.cs

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace TrainingPortal.Areas.PracticeAdmin
{
    public class PracticeAdminAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration 
    {
        public override string AreaName 
        {
            get 
            {
                return "PracticeAdmin";
            }
        }

        public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context) 
        {
            context.MapRoute(
                "PracticeAdmin_default",
                "PracticeAdmin/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                new[] { "TrainingPortal.Areas.PracticeAdmin.Controllers" }
            );
        }
    }
}

RouteConfig.cs

namespace TrainingPortal
{
    public class RouteConfig
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                namespaces: new[] { "TrainingPortal.Controllers" }
            );
        }
    }
}

I have called MapMvcAttributeRoutes here which I believe should mean that the routes are registered even within areas. I have also tried putting the necessary code within PracticeAdminAreaRegistration to do the same thing with no effect.

PracticeAdminController.cs

namespace TrainingPortal.Areas.PracticeAdmin.Controllers
{
    public partial class PracticesController : Controller
    {
        private TpContext db = new TpContext();

        // GET: PracticeAdmin/Practices
        public virtual ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View(db.Practices.ToList());
        }

        [Route("PracticeAdmin/Practice/{practiceName}")]
        public virtual ActionResult Details(string practiceName)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(practiceName))
            {
                return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
            }
            Practice practice = db.Practices.FirstOrDefault(m => m.PracticeName.ToLower() == practiceName);
            if (practice == null)
            {
                return HttpNotFound();
            }
            return View(practice);
        }
        ...

Obviously it carries on with other methods but they all follow the same approach as this one.

Index.cshtml snippet

@Html.ActionLink("Delete", MVC.PracticeAdmin.Practices.Delete(item.PracticeName))
@Html.ActionLink("Delete2", "Delete", new { practiceName = item.PracticeName })

Within PracticeAdminArea/Views/Practices/Index.cshtml I have tried using both T4MVC and the normal ActionLink approach which generate exactly the same link (unsurprisingly).

Summary

I have no idea why the Routes I have specified don't appear when trying to create an ActionLink in an area, so I was wondering whether anyone is able to point me in the direction of how I would be able to fix this and get the URL to look how I would like it to?