Question

I am just getting started with ASP.NET MVC and it’s great! However, I don’t quite understand setting up routes.

How do I route ~/About to ~/Home/About?

/Views/Home/About.aspx

I would like to be able to access it with
/Home/About
or just
/About

Answer 1

If you want to explicity setup a route for it, you can do something like this:

routes.MapRoute( 
            "AboutRoute", 
            "About", 
            new { controller = "Home", action = "About" }  // Parameter defaults 
    );

I think thats what you want to do? I.e. have /About handled by the home controller?

The default route (as below) handles /Home/About

    routes.MapRoute(
            "Default",                                              // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
        );