How to prevent Url.RouteUrl(…) from inheriting route values from the current request

Question

Lets say you have an action method to display products in a shopping cart

 // ProductsController.cs
 public ActionMethod Index(string gender) {

      // get         


        

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why not set it up like this:

In your global asax, create two routes:

routes.MapRoute(
    "testimonial-mf",
    "Testimonials/{gender}",
    new { controller = "Testimonials", action = "Index" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "testimonial-neutral",
    "Testimonials/Neutral",
    new { controller = "Testimonials", action = "Index", gender="Neutral" }
);

Then, use Url.Action instead of Url.RouteUrl:

<%= Url.Action("Testimonials", "Index") %>
<%= Url.Action("Testimonials", "Index", new { gender = "Male" }) %>
<%= Url.Action("Testimonials", "Index", new { gender = "Female" }) %>

Which, on my machine resolves to the following urls:

/Testimonials/Neutral 
/Testimonials/Male 
/Testimonials/Female

I'm not sure if this is an acceptable solution, but it's an alternative, no?