Encrypt and Decrypt URL in MVC 4 with Area Name

In the old post related to Encrypt and Decrypt URL in MVC 4 , I got lot of request for updating the code for supporting area name. so, here are the solution.

The rest of the steps are same with the above mentioned post except the following updates

Update your “EncodedActionLink” helper as below :-

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Routing;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.IO;

namespace MVCAreaDemo.Helpers
{
    public static class MyExtensions
    {
        public static MvcHtmlString EncodedActionLink(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, object routeValues, object htmlAttributes)
        {
            string queryString = string.Empty;
            string htmlAttributesString = string.Empty;
            string AreaName = string.Empty;
            if (routeValues != null)
            {
                RouteValueDictionary d = new RouteValueDictionary(routeValues);
                for (int i = 0; i < d.Keys.Count; i++)
                {
                    string elementName = d.Keys.ElementAt(i).ToLower();
                    if (elementName == "area")
                    {
                        AreaName =Convert.ToString(d.Values.ElementAt(i));
                        continue;
                    }
                    if (i > 0)
                    {
                        queryString += "?";
                    }
                    queryString += d.Keys.ElementAt(i) + "=" + d.Values.ElementAt(i);
                }
            }

            if (htmlAttributes != null)
            {
                RouteValueDictionary d = new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes);
                for (int i = 0; i < d.Keys.Count; i++)
                {
                    htmlAttributesString += " " + d.Keys.ElementAt(i) + "=" + d.Values.ElementAt(i);
                }
            }

            //What is Entity Framework??
            StringBuilder ancor = new StringBuilder();
            ancor.Append("<a ");
            if (htmlAttributesString != string.Empty)
            {
                ancor.Append(htmlAttributesString);
            }
            ancor.Append(" href='");
            if (AreaName != string.Empty)
            {
                ancor.Append("/" + AreaName);
            }
            if (controllerName != string.Empty)
            {
                ancor.Append("/" + controllerName);
            }

            if (actionName != "Index")
            {
                ancor.Append("/" + actionName);
            }
            if (queryString != string.Empty)
            {
                ancor.Append("?q=" + Encrypt(queryString));
            }
            ancor.Append("'");
            ancor.Append(">");
            ancor.Append(linkText);
            ancor.Append("");
            return new MvcHtmlString(ancor.ToString());
        }

        private static string Encrypt(string plainText)
        {
            string key = "jdsg432387#";
            byte[] EncryptKey = { };
            byte[] IV = { 55, 34, 87, 64, 87, 195, 54, 21 };
            EncryptKey = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key.Substring(0, 8));
            DESCryptoServiceProvider des = new DESCryptoServiceProvider();
            byte[] inputByte = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText);
            MemoryStream mStream = new MemoryStream();
            CryptoStream cStream = new CryptoStream(mStream, des.CreateEncryptor(EncryptKey, IV), CryptoStreamMode.Write);
            cStream.Write(inputByte, 0, inputByte.Length);
            cStream.FlushFinalBlock();
            return Convert.ToBase64String(mStream.ToArray());
        }
    }
}

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt 
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

Update your  actionlink call of views which are in the area to pass the area name as show in below snap.

and it should start working for you.

I hope you find this post useful. Thanks for reading.