Actionlinks breaks when MapPageRoute added

Question

We need to add a .html file which should be part of the root directory of our mvc app so i added the following

Route AnnouncementRoute = routes.MapPageRoute
                                      ("Announcement", "Announcement", "~/Announcement.html");

Route DefaultRoute = routes.MapRoute(
                        "Default", // Route name
                        "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
                    );

The above code makes all the default actionlinks to add Announcement

http://localhost/Announcement?action=actionname&controller=controllername

How to make sure my actionlinks generated does not contain Announcement in the link as follows which is correct?

http://localhost/?action=actionname&controller=controllername

Answer 1

You can use RouteCollection.IgnoreRoute(). Here's a good usage example that does exactly what you're trying to do.