ASP.NET MVC Routing with Default Controller

Question

For a scenario, I have a ASP.NET MVC application with URLs that look like the following:

http://example.com/Customer/List
http://example.com/Customer/List/Pa         


        

Answer 1

Why does the first URL in the new list still have "Customer". I assume that's a typo and you meant:

• http://example.com/List
• http://example.com/List/Page/2
• http://example.com/List
• http://example.com/View/8372
• http://example.com/Search/foo/Page/5

The following routes work for me:

routes.MapRoute(
    "CustomerSearch"
    , "Search/{query}/Page/{page}"
    , new { controller = "Customer", action = "Search" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "CustomerGeneric"
    , "{action}/{id}/Page/{page}"
    , new { controller = "Customer" }
);

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

How are you generating your links. Since the Controller is no longer in the URL of your route (aka, you don't have "{controller}" in the route URL), but it's a default value, you need to make sure to specify the controller when generating routes.

Thus instead of

Html.ActionLink("LinkText", "ActionName")

do

Html.ActionLink("LinkText", "ActionName", "Customer")

Why? Suppose you had the following routes.

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

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

Which route did you mean when you call this?

<%= Html.ActionLink("LinkText", "ActionName") %>

You can differentiate by specifying the controller and we'll pick the one that has a default value that matches the specified one.