13.10. Custom Routing
By now, you should have a basic understanding of URL routing in MVC and how important it is. Routing is very flexible, and the default can be modified by changing the rules in Global.asax. Right-click Global.asax (it handles global events within your application), and select View Code. Your code will look similar to the following:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); routes.MapRoute( "Default", // Route name "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults ); } protected void Application_Start() { RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); }
But what's this code doing? I will ...
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