Pretty URL ASP.NET MVC

Question

How can I get pretty urls like localhost:8888/News/Example-post instead of localhost:8888/Home/Details/2

My HomeController has the following for the Details method

Answer 1

What I do on my sites is that I check the URL against either the Page Title or Page Stub in cases where the page titles could have the same name for instance if you have a site that posts a "Picture of the Week" you may want to use a stub instead of title as you'll have multiples named the same thing.

URLs look like this: http://mySite.com/Page/Verse-of-the-Week

Global.asax contains this:

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

PageController is this:

    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)]
    public ActionResult Index(string pageID)
    {
        if (pageID == null)
        {
            pageID = pageRepository.HomeOrLowest();
        }
        var p = pageRepository.ByStub(pageID);
        if (p == null) { return RedirectToAction("NotFound", "Error"); }
        return View(p);
    }

The repository looks like this:

    private static Func _byStub =
        CompiledQuery.Compile((mvCmsContext context, string pageTitle) =>
            (from p in context.Pages
             where p.pageTitle.Replace(" ", "-") == pageTitle
             select p).SingleOrDefault());
    public Page ByStub(string pageTitle)
    {
        return _byStub(context, pageTitle);
    }

I hope that helps.

Edit to add duplicate handling:

    private static Func _pageExists =
        CompiledQuery.Compile((mvCmsContext context, string pageTitle) =>
            (from p in context.Pages
             where p.pageTitle.Replace(" ", "-") == pageTitle
             select p).Count());
    public bool PageExists(string pageTitle)
    {
        return Convert.ToBoolean(_pageExists(context, pageTitle));
    }

Validates like this:

        IValidationErrors errors = new ValidationErrors();
        if (CreateOrEdit == "Create")
        {
            if (pageRepository.PageExists(model.pageTitle) && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(model.pageTitle))
                errors.Add("pageTitle", "A page with this title already exists.  Please edit it and try again.");
        }