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ActionLink to show parameters in URL instead of querystring?

I have the following routes:

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

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

I am trying for:

/home/list/1/a
/home/details/2/b

The above results in home/details/2?name=b

Answer 1

Assuming you haven’t gotten your code example wrong, You can’t.

The route handler will pick the 1st route that matches.

However, from what it looks like what you actually want is this:

routes.MapRoute(
          "List", // Route name
          "home/list/{id}/{name}", // URL with parameters
          new { 
              controller = "Home", 
              action = "List", 
              id = UrlParameter.Optional, 
              name = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
      );

 routes.MapRoute(
          "Details", // Route name
          "home/details/{id}/{name}", // URL with parameters
          new { 
              controller = "Home", 
              action = "Details", 
              id = UrlParameter.Optional, 
              name = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
      );

In fact, those two are similar enough that it can be distilled into 1 route

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