Question

I’ve created a custom Route and registered it in Global.asax like this:

routes.Add(
            null,
            new SeoRoute(
                "foo/{id}/{title}",
                new { controller = "Foo", action = "Details" }
                ));

Since I’m using Areas in my application, I have to set Namespaces for each Route.
With regular routes, I do it like this:

routes.MapRoute(
    null,
    "foo",
    new { controller = "Foo", action = "Index" },
    new string[] { "Boo.Web.Controllers" }
    );

But how can I set namespaces for custom routes?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I used ILSpy too see how MapRoute works.
I didn’t set DataTokens value. Here’s the solution:

Route class:

public class SeoRoute : Route
{
    public SeoRoute(string url, object defaultValues, string[] namespaces)
        : base(url, new RouteValueDictionary(defaultValues), new MvcRouteHandler())
    {
        if(namespaces != null && namespaces.Length > 0)
        {
            DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary();
            DataTokens["Namespaces"] = namespaces;
        }
    }
    ...
}

Global.asax:

routes.Add(
            null,
            new SeoRoute(
                "foo/{id}/{title}",
                new { controller = "Foo", action = "Details" },
                new string[] { "Boo.Web.Controllers" }
                ));