Question

New to MVC routing, forgive the basic nature of the question.

Is it possible to configure the routing in ASP.Net MVC so that someone browsing to, say, http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml is redirected to a view that renders XML content? I assume so but am not sure of a good approach.

Answer 1

You could register a route before your default route:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Sitemap",
    "sitemap.xml",
    new { controller = "Sitemap", action = "Index" }
);

and then you could have a SitemapController:

public class SitemapController: Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var model = ...

        // Don't look for XmlResult, it's up to you to write it
        return new XmlResult(model);
    }
}

Now when you navigate to /sitemap.xml, the Index action of the Sitemap controller will get executed.