MVC2 Routing with WCF ServiceRoute: Html.ActionLink rendering incorrect links!

Question

I have a WCF service that lives side-by-side with an MVC2 web site. I\'d like for my URL for the service to look like this:

http://localhost/projdir/Service

Answer 1

Try moving the Service route after the MVC route. But to avoid the "missing controller" error that you got before, add the MVC route with a Route Constraint. These route constraints can be Regex - basically you'd want your route constraint to be any controller that is not "Service". When a request for "Service" is requested, it will make it fall through and his the WCF Service Route.

Answer 2

Another solution is to inherit the ServiceRoute and override the GetVirtualPath method to return null as described here

public class AppServiceRoute : ServiceRoute
{
    public AppServiceRoute(string routePrefix, ServiceHostFactoryBase serviceHostFactory, Type serviceType)
        : base(routePrefix, serviceHostFactory, serviceType)
    {
    }

    public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

This way, reverse route mapping never select this route for any Action. Works like a charm

Answer 3

I resolved with that:

     routes.MapRoute(
             "Default", // Route name
             "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
             new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
             new { controller = "^(?!api).*" }
        );
        routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("api", new DataServiceHostFactory(), typeof(dwService)));

I hope this good for you