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Ignoreroute Function In Asp.Net MVC

In this article, we will discuss IgnoreRoute function in asp.net MVC

Purpose

If you put your mouse above the IgnoreRoute function in visual studio, you will get the purpose of this method. The tooltip says – ‘Ignores the specified URL route for the given list of available routes’.

Sample Project

Please follow these steps

Create an asp.net MVC application
Create a folder ‘Employee’ inside ‘Views’ folder. Inside the folder add couple of views (see the screen shot below)

Picture showing the View files inside the Employee folder

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Add a file ‘EmployeeController’ inside the ‘Controller’ folder

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Inside the ‘EmployeeController’, add following methods

Picture showing the code inside the EmployeeController

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Build the application to make sure there is no compile time error.

Check Views Without Ignoreroute Function

Now browse through both the views in the browser.

Picture showing old and new views without IgnoreRoute function

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Ignoring Routes

For ignoring routes, add a IgnoreRoutes for Person view.

Picture showing adding the IgnoreRoutes code in the RouteConfig file

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Now browser both the views and you will get following output.

Picture showing the error displayed when user is trying to navigate to the old view

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Thursday, March 23, 2017

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