Question

I have one area Area1 with controller Home and it’s Index method.
I also have created another area Area2 with controller Home and it’s Index method.
In Area1 I have action link that should open Index page in Area2.

@Html.ActionLink("Link to another area index", "Index", "Home", new { area = "Area2" }, null)

But when I click on this link it first go to Area1/Home/Index!
Why is this happening. Is this has to be like this or it can go directly to Area2/Home/Index?

This makes me problem because in Area1/Home/Index I need some parameters and when this happens this valuer are null or wrong and make me problem. I must doing something wrong.
Update
Area1 routing

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
            context.Routes.IgnoreRoute("{*favicon}", new { favicon = @"(.*/)?favicon.ico(/.*)?" });

            context.MapRoute(
                "Area1_home",
                "{country}/{city}",
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", country = UrlParameter.Optional, city = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

            context.MapRoute(
                "Area1_default",
                "Area1/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

Area2 routing:

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
            context.MapRoute(
                "Area2_default",
                "Area2/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { controller="Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

Answer 1

Try:

Html.ActionLink("Link to another area index", "Index", "Home", new { Area = "Area2" }, new{});