Simple ASP.NET MVC views without writing a controller

Question

We\'re building a site that will have very minimal code, it\'s mostly just going to be a bunch of static pages served up. I know over time that will change and we\'ll want

Answer 1

You will have to write a route mapping for actual controller/actions and make sure the default has index as an action and the id is "catchall" and this will do it!

    public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                "Default", // Route name
                "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "catchall" } // Parameter defaults
            );

        }

        protected void Application_Start() {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

            RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

            ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(new CatchallControllerFactory());

        }
    }

public class CatchallController : Controller
    {

        public string PageName { get; set; }

        //
        // GET: /Catchall/

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View(PageName);
        }

    }

public class CatchallControllerFactory : IControllerFactory {
        #region IControllerFactory Members

        public IController CreateController(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext, string controllerName) {

            if (requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString() == "catchall") {
                DefaultControllerFactory factory = new DefaultControllerFactory();
                return factory.CreateController(requestContext, controllerName);
            }
            else {
                CatchallController controller = new CatchallController();
                controller.PageName = requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString();
                return controller;
            }

        }

        public void ReleaseController(IController controller) {
            if (controller is IDisposable)
                ((IDisposable)controller).Dispose();
        }

        #endregion
    }