Why are ASP.Net MVC2 area controller actions callable without including the area in the url path?
- by Nathan Ridley
I've just installed Visual Studio 2010 and have created a new MVC2 project so that I can learn about the changes and updates and have discovered an issue with areas that I'm not sure what to make of.
I created a new EMPTY MVC2 project
I right clicked the project and, from the context menu, added a new area called "Test"
In the new test area, I added a controller called "Data".
The code is:
public class DataController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /Test/Data/
public ActionResult Index()
{
Response.Write("Hi");
return new EmptyResult();
}
}
Now, I compile and call this address:
http://localhost/mytest/test/data and get the output:
Hi
All good. Now I call this: http://localhost/mytest/data and get the same response! I thought routing was supposed to take care of this? Am I overlooking something? Or has the default project setup for MVC2 overlooked something?
