RedirectToAction outside of Areas

c# asp.net-mvc-2 asp.net-mvc-areas
Jamie Dixon picture Jamie Dixon · Jul 8, 2010 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

I've recently updated our MVC 2 project at work to use Areas however I'm having a little problem with the RedirectToAction method.

We still have some of our controllers etc outside of our Areas. These controllers include the Home controller etc.

How do I do a RedirectToAction from inside an Area to a controller outside of Areas.

I thought something like the following might work but doesn't:

return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { area = "" });

or

return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { area = null });

Answer

Jamie Dixon picture Jamie Dixon · Jul 8, 2010

It seems that my origional solution:

return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new { area = "" });

does infact work.

I'm not sure how I was managing to make it not work before but it seems to be working as expected now.

Also worth noting that Visual Studio 2010 still tells me that Cannot resolve action 'Index' even though the code works fine.

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