mvc how to change default route

Question

I\'m going through the Pro Asp.net mvc3 framework book. I wanting to change the default route so that I can have a different home page. I\'ve added a new controller called P

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work like this:

    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    routes.MapRoute(null, "", new {controller = "Pages", action = "Home"});

    //routes.MapRoute(null,
    //                "", // Only matches the empty URL (i.e. /)
    //                new
    //                    {
    //                        controller = "Product",
    //                        action = "List",
    //                        category = (string)null,
    //                        page = 1
    //                    }
    //    );

    routes.MapRoute(null,
                    "Page{page}", // Matches /Page2, /Page123, but not /PageXYZ
                    new {controller = "Product", action = "List", category = (string) null},
                    new {page = @"\d+"} // Constraints: page must be numerical
        );

    routes.MapRoute(null,
                    "{category}", // Matches /Football or /AnythingWithNoSlash
                    new {controller = "Product", action = "List", page = 1}
        );

    routes.MapRoute(null,
                    "{category}/Page{page}", // Matches /Football/Page567
                    new {controller = "Product", action = "List"}, // Defaults
                    new {page = @"\d+"} // Constraints: page must be numerical
        );


    //routes.MapRoute(null, "{controller}/{action}");

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

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

is there a better way?