Razor file name with a dash

Question

I need my page names to have a dash in the name. E.G our-vision

I'm new to MVC & c# so I may be going about all this wrong.

Here is my controller:

  public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        //
        // GET: /Home/
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }
        //
        // GET: /our-vision/
        public ActionResult ourVision()
        {
            return View();
        }
    }

And then in my views, I have Views/Home/ourVision.cshtml.

When I compile and go to http://localhost/ourVision it works, but when I go to http://localhost/our-vision it does not.

Here is my routing:

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

possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30310/asp-net-mvc-how-do-i-enable-dashes-in-my-urls — Davin Tryon, Mar 28 '13 at 13:33
@CharliePrynn Umm, MVC is the framework and Razor is one of many possible view engines that can be used with MVC. The solution still applies since it's core MVC stuff. — Yuck, Mar 28 '13 at 13:35

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '13 at 13:36

You'll need to do a few things in order to achieve that.

First, to achieve our-Vision, you'll need to give your action method the ActionName attribute, like so:

[ActionName("our-Vision")]
public ActionResult ourVision()

Next, you'll have to rename your ourVision.cshtml view to be our-Vision.cshtml

Finally, whenever you're using Url.Action or ActionLink, you need to use our-Vision and not vision, like so:

Url.Action("our-Vision", "Home");

vchyzhevskyi · Answer 2 · 2013-03-28T14:35:46.903

1

IMHO

The best way to do this - is define new route in route engine:

routes.MapRoute(
            "OurVision", // Route name
            "our-vision", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "ourVision" } // Parameter defaults
        );

edited Mar 28 '13 at 14:35

answered Mar 28 '13 at 13:44

vchyzhevskyi

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