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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:57:28+00:00

There seem to be a lot of issues on SO dealing with MapRoute problems.

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There seem to be a lot of issues on SO dealing with MapRoute problems. I’ve read through a bunch of them, but I can’t see what I’m doing wrong in my implementation. I’ve got the following routes set up:

routes.MapRoute( _     'FilesDisplay', _     '{controller}/{action}/{year}/{month}', _     New With {.controller = 'Files', .action = 'Display', .year = '', .month = ''})  routes.MapRoute( _     'Default', _     '{controller}/{action}', _     New With {.controller = 'Files', .action = 'Index'})

and the following RouteLink:

<%=Html.RouteLink('Show', 'FilesDisplay', New With {.year = 2008, .month = 5})%>

However, the resulting URL for ‘Show’ is /Files/Index/2008/5. Why is it picking up the Index action instead of the Display action?

Edit: As a lark I changed the second route to .action = 'Display' just to see if I could get the URL to change, and it still resolves to /Files/Index/2008/5.

Edit 2: I also tried:

<%=Html.ActionLink('Show', 'Display', 'Files', New With {.year = 2008, .month = 5}, Nothing)%>

but that also resolves to /Files/Index/2008/5. Why is it that no matter what I specify for an action it’s defaulting to Index?

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  1. Upgrading to MVC RC 1.0 seemed to fix ActionLink but not RouteLink. Therefore I’m moving forward with ActionLink. I’d love to know why RouteLink doesn’t want to work though.

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