Asp.Net MVC Route Table and Controller Actions

Question

I am creating a directory of sorts with members and their profiles. I'm using the MVC framework in .net.

I have a view that allows you to find members based on some criteria so my controller has a Find() action result, then another that accepts the post verb. So, somesite.com/members/find displays the search tools, then once the form has been submitted the same url displays the results. I now want the member name to link to another actionresult method in the same controller for displaying their profile and i want the url's to follow this pattern somesite.com/members/{username}.

How do i create a controller method that will do this? Is there more to it than that?
Do i need to map new routes in the global.asax?

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

First create your action method on the controller like this:

public ActionResult Profile(string userName)
{
    // Do What you want with the userName
    throw new System.NotImplementedException();
}

Then create a new route in your global.asax file to handle the somesite.com/members/{username} like this:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Profile",
    "members/{username}",
    new { controller = "Members", action = "Profile", userName = "" }
);

That's it. I am not sure what you are calling the controller that will host the action method. I assumed members.