How Can I Stop ASP.Net MVC Html.ActionLink From Using Existing Route Values?

Question

The website I\'m working on has some fairly complicated routing structures and we\'re experiencing some difficulties working with the routing engine to build URLs the way we

Answer 1

Solution at the root of the problem

It seems that the optimal solution (that doesn't smell like a workaround) is the one that solves the problem where it has roots and that's in routing.

I've written a custom Route class called RouteWithExclusions that is able to define route value names that should be excluded/removed when generating URLs. The problem is when routing falls through routes table and subsequent routes don't have the same route value names...

The whole problem is detailed and explained in my blog post and all the code is provided there as well. Check it out, it may help you solve this routing problem. I've also written two additional MapRoute extension methods that take an additional parameter.