I'm currently working on a project using ASP.NET 5 in combination with AngularJS. Within my MVC application, I have two actions with corresponding views (Home and Web). Additionally, I have implemented four client-side routes using Angular. The challenge I am facing is that within the first view (Home), I need to include an anchor link to navigate to the second action in MVC (Web). However, due to the use of Angular Routing and attribute routing in MVC, I am unable to achieve this seamless navigation. Whenever I try to add an ActionLink to the second action, it redirects me back to the first action along with the first view in Angular. Below is a snippet of my code:
Controller:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
[Route("{*url}")]
public IActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
[Route("Home/Web")]
public IActionResult Web()
{
return View();
}
}
Angular File:
app.config(["$stateProvider", "$urlRouterProvider", "$locationProvider", function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $locationProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/',
templateUrl: 'static/home.html'
})
.state('about', {
url: '/about',
templateUrl: 'static/about.html'
})
.state('contact', {
url: '/contact',
templateUrl: 'static/contact.html'
})
.state('tutorial', {
url: '/tutorial',
templateUrl: 'static/tutorial.html'
})
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
}]);
Startup class incorporating default routes in MVC:
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
{
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
});
}
_Layout.cshtml file snippet:
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li>
<a href="/about">About</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/contact">Contact</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/tutorial">Tutorials</a>
</li>
<li>
@Html.ActionLink("Web", "Web", "Home")
</li>
</ul>
</div>
In this setup, no web.config file is utilized for server configuration, as attribute routing is being used instead.