Question

I am writing a short url service in MVC3, partly as a learning tool.

When I load the url http://mysite/abc I want to redirect to an action in my controller with the following signature:

public ActionResult RedirectToLink(string shortLink)

How would I create a route in order to run this code? I have tried the following:

routes.MapRoute("Link", "{shortLink}", new { controller = "LinkController", action = "RedirectToLink" });

Alternatively, if someone can point me towards a decent primer for MVC3 that actually covers the basics rather than what’s changed since the last version and would cover this scenario, I’d be much obliged.

Thanks

Answer 1

this is the route your want :

routes.MapRoute(
    "ShortLink", // Route name
    "{shortLink}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Link", // Parameter defaults
    action = "RedirectToLink",
    shortLink= UrlParameter.Optional }
    );