I'm using ASP.NET MVC to develop a website and I need to customize my URL to use a name that is not the name of my Controller.
I want to use this Class/Method names:
public class CompanyController:Controller {
public ActionResult About() {
return View();
}
}
But I want to use the URL http://www.mysite.com/the-company/about-us to access my Controller/Method.
How should I proceed?
Thank you.
Since your question is mainly about controller naming I would (contrary to @Nissan Fan's answer) do at least this generalization, to make routing a bit more flexible and minimize the amount of routes, you'd have to define:
routes.MapRoute(
"CompanyRoute",
"the-company/{action}",
new { controller = "Company", action = "About" }
);
Your controller should of course be written this way:
public class CompanyController : Controller
{
[ActionName("about-us")]
public ActionResult About()
{
return View("About");
}
}
[NonAction] attribute on controller methods that you don't want exposed (trat are not actions per se).
You will use URL Routing:
http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/tutorial-05-cs.aspx
routes.MapRoute(
"AboutUs", // Route name
"the-company/about-us", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "CompanyController", action = "About" } // Parameter defaults
);