Question

Can I override an ActionResult method. Say I have a method Index in AccountController like this

public ActionResult Index()
{

return View();
}

Can I have one more method with same name but with differnt parameters
like
public ActionResult Index(int userid)
{

return View();
}

I dont want to call it like http://something/accounts/index/11
I just want to say http://something/accounts/11

You can look at stackoverflow stuff also
if you go to https://stackoverflow.com/users
i feel users is the controller and the default action is index so dont to call it explicit.
now if you type something like https://stackoverflow.com/users/96346/parminder
the two parameters are 96346 and parminder

I hope it makes sense.

what will be the entries in the global.asax

Regards
Parminder

Answer 1

Take a look at my question here

I think you can do it by hacking some method attributes but I think it would be cleaner if you write another method then add a route for it.It would look like this:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    return View();
} 

public ActionResult UserInfo(int id)
{
    //some stuff
    return View(modelObject);
}

Then you provide a route for it like:

routes.MapRoute("UserInfo", //route name
                "Accounts/{id}",
                new 
                { 
                    controller = "Accounts",
                    action = "UserInfo",
                    id=UrlParameter.Optional 
                });