How to hide controller name in Url?

Question

How to hide controller name in Url?

I use the ASP.NET MVC.

The original url is: http://www.sample.com/Users.mvc/UserDetail/9615

The \"Users\" is con

Answer 1

The idea is the same. You do just the thing you did to the action. However, your problem arises from the fact that IIS is probably not mapping www.xyz.com/1234 to ASP.NET runtime. To do so in IIS7, enable integrated mode and in IIS6, add a wildcard mapping in handler map that maps everything to ASP.NET.

To add a wildcard map, see http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx (Search for "IIS6 Extension-less URLs" in that page)

After that, simply add a route:

routes.MapRoute("UserDetails", "{UserID}/{*name}", 
    new { controller = "Users", action = "UserDetail" , UserID=""});

This should do the trick.

Answer 2

MVC recognizes the difference between "{UserID}" and "{id}" so if you are going to have a route with only "{UserID}" in the Url you need to place it first in the list other wise it never gets hit. And make sure the default includes "id" since it will continually loop over "UserDetails" unless the default references id as apposed to UserID. I found this format works for me:

routes.MapRoute("UserDetails",
       "{UserID}",
       new { controller = "Users", action = "UserDetail", id = "" }
);
routes.MapRoute(
       "Default", // Route name
       "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters               
       new { controller = "Account", action = "LogOn", id = "" } // Parameter defaults   
);