Custom route inside Area's controller action is not working in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I'm using ASP.NET MVC. I'm using custom routes on some of my Actions.

Example:

/Home/Contact

This default route has a custom route defined like this:

[Route("~/contact-us")]
public ActionResult Contact()
{
    // Some code.. :)    
}

And now I can access the Contact Action through the /contact-us route.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work when I try to do the same inside an Area. When I add a custom route in an action inside a controller in an Area and I try to access it, the action is not executed and I'm redirected to my global Home Controller's Index action. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

May be you should use RouteArea attribute to your controller in Area. Following code snippet may help you.

 [RouteArea("YourArea")]  //use your Area name 
 public class ProfileController : Controller
 {
    [Route("~/contact-us")]
    public ActionResult Contact()
    {
        return View();
    }
 }