.NET 4.5 MVC RouteCollection.LowercaseUrls breaks when using Area

Question

A new property to RouteCollection was added with .NET Framework 4.5:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.routing.routecollection.lowercaseurls.aspx

Answer 1

This indeed appears to be a bug in the interaction between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET 4.5's new LowercaseUrls feature in routing.

I have logged a bug for MVC here: http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/685

Thank you for reporting this!

As Cristi Pufu mentions, it appears that others have written some NuGet packages to handle similar scenarios:

• http://nuget.org/packages/LowercaseRoutesMVC - adds support for lowercase URLs
• http://nuget.org/packages/AttributeRouting - adds super fancy support for tons of neat feature, including lowercase URLs (see https://github.com/mccalltd/AttributeRouting/wiki/Generating-Lowercase-Outbound-URLs)

EDIT 4/23/2013 - We have recently accepted a pull request with a fix for this issue for ASP.NET MVC 5.