ASP.NET MVC - passing parameters to the controller

Question

I have a controller with an action method as follows:

public class InventoryController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult ViewStockNext(int firstItem)
           


        

Answer 1

The reason for the special treatment of "id" is that it is added to the default route mapping. To change this, go to Global.asax.cs, and you will find the following line:

routes.MapRoute ("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
                 new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" });

Change it to:

routes.MapRoute ("Default", "{controller}/{action}", 
                 new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });