Purpose of ActionName

Question

What\'s the benefit of setting an alias for an action method using the \"ActionName\" attribute? I really don\'t see much benefit of it, in providing the user the option to

Answer 1

It allows you to start your action with a number or include any character that .net does not allow in an identifier. - The most common reason is it allows you have two Actions with the same signature (see the GET/POST Delete actions of any scaffolded controller)

For example: you could allow dashes within your url action name http://example.com/products/create-product vs http://example.com/products/createproduct or http://example.com/products/create_product.

public class ProductsController {

    [ActionName("create-product")]
    public ActionResult CreateProduct() {
        return View();
    }

}