Question

I was going to register a route such as below in ASP .NET MVC3:

routes.MapRoute(
            "SearchRoute", // Route name
            "Report/Search/{code}/{quarter}/{year}/{receivedBegin}/{receivedEnd}/{transactionBegin}/{transactionEnd}/{page}", // URL with parameters
            new {
                controller = "Report",
                action = "Search",
                page = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

That route will link to this function in a controller named Report:

public ActionResult Search(string code, int? quarter, int? year, 
            DateTime? receivedBegin, DateTime? receivedEnd,
            DateTime? transactionBegin, DateTime? transactionEnd, int? page=1)

I expected that links generated by Html.ActionLink to that function will be generated like:
Report/Search/10/2/2012/04-30-2012/04-01-2012/04-30-2012

When I generate a link using Html.ActionLink, the link generated is as such:

Report/Search?code=100&quarter=2&year=2012&receivedBegin=04-01-2012&receivedEnd=04-30-2012&transactionBegin=04-01-2012&transactionEnd=04-30-2012

What should I do to generate a result as I expected? Thank you.

Update

This is the code I use to create the link:

@Html.ActionLink("First", "Search", new { 
    code = currentCode, 
    quarter = currentQuarter, 
    year = currentYear, 
    receivedBegin = currentReceivedBegin, 
    receivedEnd = currentReceivedEnd, 
    transactionBegin = currentTransactionBegin, 
    transactionEnd = currentTransactionEnd }, null).

Answer 1

No this is not the first route I registered. Do I have to register this first?

Yes. The rules in your RegisterRoutes method of global.asax should go from top to bottom in order of specificity, therefore this route should definitely be at (or at least near) the top.

The default route should always be the last one.