Areas & ambiguous controller name in Menu

[dejavu]

Hi,

i have a simple menu inside an asp.net mvc 2 project, using Telerik's MVC menu. Inside that project are three areas, each one with the same structure, so, ListController, AddController and ModifyController are the controller's name on each one of them.

Menu items are built using the constructor that takes three params:

 

item.Add().Text("List").Action("Index", "List", new { area = "Area1" })

and so with the other two:

item.Add().Text("Add").Action("Index", "Add", new { area = "Area2" })
item.Add().Text("Modify").Action("Index", "Modify", new { area = "Area3" })

Problem is the known "Ambiguous controller name" gotcha. But using this Action constructor does nothing to solve it. Hope it can be done with current version Telerik MVC extensions. Anyway, amazing product i must say.

Thanks in advance.

[Derek Hunziker]

Hey there,

I had a similar issue and was able to get it working by passing in a namespace for my area registrations like so:

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
    context.MapRoute(
        "MyArea_default",
        "MyArea/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
        new string[] { "MyApp.Areas.MyArea.Controllers" }
    );
}

[dejavu]

Hi there,

do you have two or more controlers with the same name in different areas? this is my case, and whit that area structure i've not been able to solve it yet.

Regars,

dejavu

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello dejavu,

I have attached a simple test project. which implements the required functionality. In it menu can navigate to same controller and action in different areas.

Greetings,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team