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Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi
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Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi has been working on building web-based applications using Microsof technology for more than a decade. He is active in the ASP.NET community and is running a successful blog, www.dotnetodyssey.com, to help his fellow .NET developers. His free beginners' course for ASP.NET MVC 5 (http://www.dotnetodyssey.com/asp-net-mvc-5-free-course/) was well received and is referred to as a concrete reference for beginners. He can be seen on subreddit / Stack Overflow in the C# section. He has written two free micro e-books, The 7 Most Popular Recipes of jQuery with ASP.NET Web Forms and Value & Reference types in C# (http://www.dotnetodyssey.com/freeebooks/). His books have received good responses. He is also an active contributor to the ASP.NET community on Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Mugil-Ragu). He likes to help readers with queries regarding ASP.NET.
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Anuraj Parameswaran is a seasoned IT expert with over 19 years of experience, starting in 2004, with a strong focus on Azure and .NET technologies. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Socxo Solutions Pvt. Ltd., he has received seven prestigious Microsoft MVP awards. Anuraj actively participates in mentoring programs, delivers speeches at various events, and contributes extensively to both Microsoft and Azure communities. His commitment to sharing knowledge and embracing lifelong learning is exemplified by his involvement as a technical reviewer for Packt books.
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Route attribute at the controller level


You will notice that, with the URL pattern for the action methods, Index and Index2, we repeat the controller name, Home, in both URL patterns, Home and Home/Index3. Instead of repeating the controller method name (or any common part in the URL) at the action method level, we can define it at the controller level.

In the following code, the common part of the URL (Home) is defined at the controller level and the unique part is defined at the action method level. When the URL pattern is getting mapped to the action methods of the controller, both route parts (at the controller level and at the action method level) are merged and matched. So there will be no difference between the routes defined earlier and those that follow.

If you want two parameters in attribute-based routing, you can pass them within curly braces. In the following example, we did this for the SayHello action method.

For example, the URL pattern http://localhost:49831/Home/Index3, will...

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Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi

Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi has been working on building web-based applications using Microsof technology for more than a decade. He is active in the ASP.NET community and is running a successful blog, www.dotnetodyssey.com, to help his fellow .NET developers. His free beginners' course for ASP.NET MVC 5 (http://www.dotnetodyssey.com/asp-net-mvc-5-free-course/) was well received and is referred to as a concrete reference for beginners. He can be seen on subreddit / Stack Overflow in the C# section. He has written two free micro e-books, The 7 Most Popular Recipes of jQuery with ASP.NET Web Forms and Value & Reference types in C# (http://www.dotnetodyssey.com/freeebooks/). His books have received good responses. He is also an active contributor to the ASP.NET community on Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Mugil-Ragu). He likes to help readers with queries regarding ASP.NET.
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Anuraj Parameswaran

Anuraj Parameswaran is a seasoned IT expert with over 19 years of experience, starting in 2004, with a strong focus on Azure and .NET technologies. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Socxo Solutions Pvt. Ltd., he has received seven prestigious Microsoft MVP awards. Anuraj actively participates in mentoring programs, delivers speeches at various events, and contributes extensively to both Microsoft and Azure communities. His commitment to sharing knowledge and embracing lifelong learning is exemplified by his involvement as a technical reviewer for Packt books.
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