Question

I have a controller called HomeController with the actions Index(), MethodOne() and MethodTwo(). Each of these just return View() for now.
When I create an action link with the code:

@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")

I get the hyperlink:

<a href="/">Home</a>

This is good however using the same ActionLink extention method to route too MethodOne I get the hyperlink:

<a href="/Home/MethodOne">MethodOne</a></li>

What do I need to configure so my site will accept the hyperlink “/MethodOne”, this currently returns a 404.
I have a suspicion this may be related to routing. My routing table is currently the default:

routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    new
    {
        controller = "Home",
        action = "Index",
        id = UrlParameter.Optional
    });

Answer 1

You need a route like:

routes.MapRoute(
    "MethodOne", //Your route name.
    "methodone", //What your browser/user will see at the URL bar: localhost.com/methodone 
    new { controller = "Home", action = "MethodOne" } //What MVC3 will route to.
);

That will map and catch the request to the Home/MethodOne action method.