Dynamic routing action name in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I would like to create a dynamic routing to a URL like following:

http://localhost:51577/Item/AnyActionName/Id

Please note that the control

Answer 1

What you are referring to in your question is called a slug.

I answered a similar question here for web api

Web api - how to route using slugs?

With the slug at the end the route config would look like this

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {

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

    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "Items",
        url: "Item/{id}/{*slug}",
        defaults: new { controller = "Item", action = "Index", slug = RouteParameter.Optional }
    );

    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "Default",
        url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );

}

which could match an example controller action...

public class ItemController : Controller {
    public ActionResult Index(int id, string slug = null) {
        //...
    }
}

the example URL...

"Item/31223512/Any-Item-Name"

would then have the parameters matched as follows...

• id = 31223512
• slug = "Any-Item-Name"

And because the slug is optional, the above URL will still be matched to

"Item/31223512"