Is there a way to get rid of /Index in url of every controller in an MVC application

Question

I am a bit new to the MVC so started off with MVC3 with ASPX engine. my scenario is, that when I create a controller it automatically generates an Action named "Index" so suppose if I create a "Users" Controller + some actions, it would look something like this.

UserController

• Index
• Add
• Delete
• Edit
• other actions

Then I create another controllers named "Products", "Company", etc with lets say the same set of Actions,

So normally when I would go to the link ../Users/Index I have the logic to show all users and it would do the same for ..Product/Index and ..Company/Index etc. It would show all products and all companies respectively.

This part of story is working good.

Now what I want to achieve is, I want to get rid of /Index everywhere in the url, not just for these three controllers, but for every controller that I create in future. I want to consume "Index" Action but in a way that it doesn't need being typing everywhere. It just makes me remember of old days where there used to be /index.html.

I have seen the links like these, MVC Routing get rid of /Index in URL they suggest i change the route for a specific situation, but I want this done not just in one or two controllers but every controller there is in my app.

Thanks.

Answer 1

In every route, specify Index as the default action, e.g.:

routes.MapRoute(null, "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
   new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });