What Are Areas in ASP.Net MVC - Part 6

And just add the view for the Index Action in the Men's area.

So finally I have everything with the View and Controllers in the solutions as in the following.

Now do the entire procedure the same for the next area for Women.

After adding everything the same as the previous area for Men, now see the solutions.

Now if I run the application the request will hit the default URL register in “RouteConfig.cs” which is http://.../Home/Index so it'll return exceptions.

See the exception message that shows that we have multiple “Home” controllers in the same project so use the namespaces attribute in the default route in “RouteConfig.cs” to remove this exception. If I need to request directly to any Area we can manually.

Now open your default “RouteConfig.cs” to set the namespaces attribute with the default route.

Add this.

namespaces: new string[] { "MVC5WithArea.Controllers" }

Now run the application again. This is runnable now, it'll find the Home controller using namespaces.

Now if you want to, redirect the request from the default controller to the Area Controller so I can add an action link.

But the preceding action link can only request in the same domain or in the same area but if I want to request a different area then use this overload of the Action Link extension method.

@Html.ActionLink("Go To Mens Home", "Index", "Home", new { area = "Mens" }, null)

Just add to the Action link for a different area one for Men and another for Women.

Now run The application and click on any link to redirect the action.

This was the way to redirect from one to another area.

If I want to set the default area argument in the URL then use a DataTokens collection to add a key for the area in “RouteConfig.cs”.

Now run it again and see the default view from an Area.

Thanks for Reading.

Nitin Pandit

Twitter: @thinkaboutnitin