Question

I am wanting to create a website that dynamically maps routes in the following fashion:

http://domain/MyCategory1
http://domain/
http://domain/MyCategory1/MySubCategory

So far I’ve added in a new route to Global.asax

routes.MapRoute(
"IFAMainCategory", // Route name
"{IFACategoryName}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "GetSubCategories", IFACategoryName=1} // Parameter defaults
);

But this then messes up the default route that comes as standard.

Is there any way I can control this?

Answer 1

You need to change your routes:

 routes.MapRoute("MyCustomRoute", "MyCategory1/{action}/{id}",
     new { controller = "MyCategory1", action = "MySubCategory", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

// Then the default route

Basically, since you’ve just made one giant route catcher, all routes match to that one. You need to go specific if you want to map a specific route to a controller.