Question

Well, technically it is an ASP.net routing question but since I am using MVC 3 here we go.

I need to setup a route as follows:
http://www.mysite.com/profile/1 where 1 is the userid, however I want to hide the userid param in the query string because it is just plain ugly.

Controller is ProfileController
Action is Index
parameter is userid.

I can’t seem to figure this out. I am probably thinking about it too much…
Any help would be ultra cool.

Answer 1

The route should be nice and simple. It needs to come before your default route handler.

routes.MapRoute(
        "Profile",                                              // Route name
        "profile/{userId}",                                    // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Profile", action = "Index" }        // Parameter defaults
    );