routing in mvc5

Aleena Saviour

8y1.1k.NET

How to remove controller name from all the routes in the url in mvc5 application,when i specify a route in route config it affets only one route?

this is my try,but it works for only one route..

routes.MapRoute(

"About",

"{action}",

new {controller = "Home", action = "About", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

);

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Prateek Singla8y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Aleena Saviour

with vs 2016 Attribute Routing is introduced.

With attribute routing you avoid these problems and it's far easier to see what routes where. All you have to do is add this to RouteConfig.cs (probably at the top before other routes may match):
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
Then add the Route Attribute to each action with the route name, eg
[Route("MyAction")] public ActionResult MyAction() { ... }
Prateek Singla8y ago
try this
Not only do you have to have the call to routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes() in your App_Start\RouteConfig.cs file, it must appear before defining your default route! I add it before that and after ignoring {resource}.axd{*pathInfo}. Just found that out trying to get attribute routing to work correctly with my MVC 5 website.

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Account", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
Aleena Saviour8y ago
hi...

i got error at this line routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes().

Thanks.
Prateek Singla8y ago
Can you share the code where you get error so that i can help you out.
Aleena Saviour8y ago
hi...
i'm working with vs 2017.when i'm using routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes().
i got this error ...'Cannot call action method 'System.Data.DataTable ToDataTable[T](System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T])' on controller 'FurntureCom.Customers.Controllers.UserController' because the action method is a generic method...