How to create an ActionLink to a custom route in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I have a custom route inside an area:

[RouteArea("MyArea")]  
public class MyController: Controller
{
    [Route("~/my-action")]
    public ActionResult MyAction()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

Before adding the Route and RouteArea attributes, I accessed this action through the following route:

~/MyArea/MyController/MyAction

Now that I added this attributes, I am able to access it just through this:

~/my-action

I used to have an ActionLink which was pointing to this action and it looked like this:

@Html.ActionLink("Link To My Action", "MyAction", "My", new { Area = "MyArea" }, new { })

Now this ActionLink is no longer working. How can I fix it?

You ActionLink would never have worked - you controller is named MyController so it would have need to be @Html.ActionLink("Link To My Action", "MyAction", "My", new { Area = "MyArea" }, new { }) — user3559349
– user3559349, Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 8:06
Sorry, this is just an example and I did a mistake when changing the names of the Area, the Controller and the Action. In my real code this is correct and I also fixed it in my question. — Yulian
– Yulian, Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 8:23
You are using Attribute Routing, have you initialized this feature in the RouteConfig.cs file like this: routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes() in the RegisterRoutes method? — Marko Jovanov
– Marko Jovanov, Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 8:28
I had the conflict earlier when using both Traditional Routing and Attribute Routing - perhaps try to remove the Traditional one if you have any traces of it, and just try to go with Attributes? — Marko Jovanov
– Marko Jovanov, Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 9:12

Yulian · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-07 16:10:00Z

10

I came up with the following solution:

I added a Name to the route that I created.

[Route("~/my-action", Name = "CustomRoute")]
public ActionResult MyAction()

And then I used the RouteLink helper method, instead of the ActionLink one like this:

@Html.RouteLink("Link To My Action", "CustomRoute")

So, the first parameter of the RouteLink method is the text of the link and the second one is the name of the route - the same name that you've put in the Route attribute.

answered Dec 7, 2015 at 16:10

Yulian

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2 Comments

Alex Podworny Over a year ago

For me, it was sufficient to just use @Url.RouteUrl("CustomRoute")

IceeFrog Over a year ago

Adding an <a> with @Url.RouteUrl helped me mout thanks Alex

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