Url routing with database lookup?

Question

I want to build a ASP.NET MVC site so that the controller for a specific url is stored in the database instead of the URL.

The reason for that is that i\'m building

Answer 1

Why couldn't you just do something like this:

-- Global.asax.cs --

 routes.MapRoute(null,              // Route name
                 "content/{id}",    // URL with parameters               
                 new { Controller = "Content", Action = "Show", Id = (string) null });  // Parameter defaults

-- /Controllers/ContentController.cs --

public class ContentController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Show(string id)
    {
        // Lookup the 'content' (article, page, blog post, etc) in the repository (database, xml file, etc)
        ContentRepository repository = new ContentRepository();
        Content content = repository.FindContent(id);
        return View(content);
    }
}

Such that a request to your site www.yoursite.com/content/welcome-to-my-first-blog-post would call ContentController.Show("welcome-to-my-first-blog-post").