Routes in ASP.NET MVC

Routes in ASP.NET MVC

🔀 Understanding Routes in ASP.NET & ASP.NET Core

Routing determines how your app responds to incoming URLs.
With DevStack, a flexible routing engine is already wired in — so you can focus on features, not boilerplate.

🚧 Classic MVC Routing (ASP.NET Framework)

In traditional MVC projects, routes are registered in the RouteConfig.cs file under App_Start.

public class RouteConfig
{
    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );
    }
}

➕ Adding Custom Routes

You can define additional routes above the default one to handle specific URL patterns:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Product",
    url: "Product/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Product", action = "Details" },
    constraints: new { id = @"\d+" } // Only match numeric IDs
);

✅ Already handled in DevStack — routes are automatically prioritized by specificity.

📄 Razor Pages Routing

For Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core, you define routes using the @page directive at the top of .cshtml files.

@page "/product/{id}"
@model ProductModel

<h1>Product ID: @Model.Id</h1>

Route Binding in PageModel: 

[BindProperty(SupportsGet = true)]
public int Id { get; set; }

🎯 This enables GET-friendly model binding — ideal for search, filters, and SEO-friendly detail pages.

🎯 Attribute Routing in ASP.NET Core

Attribute routing gives you controller-level or action-level route definitions:

[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class ProductsController : Controller
{
    [HttpGet("{id}")]
    public IActionResult GetProduct(int id)
    {
        return Ok(new { ProductId = id });
    }
}

✅ DevStack fully supports attribute routing, fallback routes, and route constraints like regex and enums.

🧪 Testing Routes

  • Manual: Hit your routes in the browser or via Postman.
  • Automated: Unit tests can verify route-to-action resolution.
  • Debugging:
  • Use Routing Debugger for ASP.NET
  • Or enable endpoint routing logs in ASP.NET Core:

app.UseRouting();
    app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
    {
        endpoints.MapControllers();
    });

💡 TL;DR: Routing Made Easy

FeatureClassic MVCASP.NET CoreDevStack Adds
Convention-based routing✅✅✅ With layered fallback and priorities
Attribute routing❌✅✅ Already baked in
Razor Page routes❌✅✅ Fully supported
Regex/constraint support✅✅✅ With smart defaults
Route debugging toolsLimitedGood via logging✅ Verbose route tracing helper

🚀 Skip the Setup — It’s Already Done

Every route type mentioned above is already supported in my DevStack codebase. You get:

  • ✅ Pre-wired routes for MVC, Razor Pages, APIs
  • ✅ Attribute routing and slugs
  • ✅ Clean SEO-friendly URLs
  • ✅ Route helpers and fallback logic

If you’re building anything from a blog to a SaaS app and want to skip the plumbing — I’ve already written the code you need.

Let me help you fast-track your .NET Core project — with proper routing, SEO, and structure from day one.

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