change controller name convention in ASP.NET MVC

Question

Is there a way to change the naming convention for controllers in ASP.NET MVC?

What I want is to name my controllers InicioControlador instead of

Answer 1

I decided to dig a bit deeper and found exactly what I was looking for after searching through the MVC source code. The convention for controller names is deep inside the roots of the MVC Framework, especifically in two classes ControllerDescriptor and ControllerTypeCache.

In ControllerDescriptor it is given by the following attribute:

public virtual string ControllerName {
  get {
    string typeName = ControllerType.Name;
    if (typeName.EndsWith("Controller", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) {
      return typeName.Substring(0, typeName.Length - "Controller".Length);
    }
    return typeName;
  }
}

In ControllerTypeCache it is given by the following methods:

internal static bool IsControllerType(Type t) {
  return
    t != null &&
    t.IsPublic &&
    t.Name.EndsWith("Controller", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) &&
    !t.IsAbstract &&
    typeof(IController).IsAssignableFrom(t);
}

public void EnsureInitialized(IBuildManager buildManager)
{
  if (_cache == null)
  {
    lock (_lockObj)
    {
      if (_cache == null)
      {
        List controllerTypes = TypeCacheUtil.GetFilteredTypesFromAssemblies(_typeCacheName, IsControllerType, buildManager);
        var groupedByName = controllerTypes.GroupBy(
            t => t.Name.Substring(0, t.Name.Length - "Controller".Length),
            StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
        _cache = groupedByName.ToDictionary(
            g => g.Key,
            g => g.ToLookup(t => t.Namespace ?? String.Empty, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase),
            StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
      }
    }
  }