ASP.NET MVC: Many routes -> always only one controller

Question

I have very simple question. My site, based on ASP.NET MVC, can have many urls, but all of them should bring to the one controller. How to do that?

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Answer 1

Ideally you should try and specific with your routes, for example if you have a URL that is /products/42 and you want it to go to a generic controller you should specify it explicitly like

routes.MapRoute(
    "Poducts",
    "products/{id}",
    new { controller = "Content", action = "Show", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );

then you would specify another route for something else like /customers/42

routes.MapRoute(
        "Customers",
        "customers/{id}",
        new { controller = "Content", action = "Show", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

this may seem a little verbose, and creating a single route might seem cleaner, but the issue a single route is you will never get a 404 and will have to handle such things in code.