Custom Routes for MVC Application

When you request any page into MVC Application, it will go through the Routing Architecture. Your Routing system will decide your URL pattern. The default routing algorithm is like {controller}/ {action}/ {id} patterns. But it can be possible to change that pattern using Custom Routes.

Default Route
You can configure Route into the Global.aspx's Application Start Event. When you are creating an MVC application, it will already define Default route. Default route can be configured using the following code:

     routes.MapRoute(

      name: "Default",

      url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",

      defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

Custom Routes
It is possible to develop an MVC application without creating a Custom Route. But sometimes, there is a situation to change the pattern of URL in which it makes sense to create Custom Routes.

Examples of Valid Route Patterns in ASP.NET MVC

Route Pattern	URL Example
mysite/{username}/{action}	~/mysite/jatten/login
public/blog/{controller}-{action}/{postId}	~/public/blog/posts-show/123
{country}-{lang}/{controller}/{action}/{id}	~/us-en/products/show/123
products/buy/{productId}-{productName}	~/products/but/2145-widgets

Suppose I have a BlogController like below.

public class BlogController : Controller

    {

        public string Archive(DateTime? entryDate)

        {

            return "You wants Blog Entry on Date:=" + entryDate.ToString();

        }

        public string All()

        {

            return "All function";

        }

        public string getData(string name, int empId)

        {

            return "name: " + name + " id= " + empId;

        }

     }

1- Imagine that you want to route a request look like: /Archive/12-25-2010.

          routes.MapRoute(

                            "myBlogRoute1",

                            "{Archive}/{entrydate}",

                            new { Controller = "Blog", action = "Archive", });

2- Imagine that you want to route a request look like: /MyBlogs/All/12 or /MyBlogs/All/

            // MyBlogs/All/12  

            // MyBlogs/All/

            routes.MapRoute(

                   name: "myBlogRoute2",

                   url: "MyBlogs/{action}/{id}",

                   defaults: new

                   {

                       controller = "Blog",

                       action = "All",

                       id = UrlParameter.Optional

                   }

                 );

3- Imagine that you want to route a request look like: /MyBlogs/Suraj/Post/101

            // MyBlogs/suraj/Post/101

            routes.MapRoute(

                name: "myBlogRoute3",

                url: "MyBlogs/{name}/Post/{postId}",

                defaults: new

                {

                    controller = "Blog",

                    action = "getData",

                }

            );

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