RouteTable.Routes.GetVirtualPath() returns wrong route in ASP.NET MVC

I got the following routes:

// pennames
routes.MapRoute(
    "pennames", // Route name
    "MyHome/Authors/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Author", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

// article
routes.MapRoute(
    "article", // Route name
    "MyHome/Articles/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Article", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

// index
routes.MapRoute(
    "MyHome", // Route name
    "MyHome/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "MyHome", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

I'm trying to add paging functionality to my "MyHome/Articles/" view. The pager is using the following code to get th开发者_Python百科e URL:

var virtualPathData = RouteTable.Routes.GetVirtualPath(this.viewContext.RequestContext, pageLinkValueDictionary);

if (virtualPathData != null)
{
    string linkFormat = "<a href=\"{0}\">{1}</a>";
    return String.Format(linkFormat, virtualPathData.VirtualPath, linkText);
}
else
{
    return null;
}

The problem is, although I'm running this code from "MyHome/Articles/" page the GetVirtualPath always returns the first route "MyHome/Authors/" and completely ignores the prefix "MyHome/Articles/" in the route.

When I use the ActionLink it works fine, just not from GetVirtualPath.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

If you want to apply pagination to your MyHome/Articles

You can give a hardcoded path like

yourpath="MyHome/Articles?page=" + page_number;

and each time you have to receive the page parameter from view with that pagination helper available for view or with the <%=Html.ActionLink()%> and pass routes parameter within this.