How to: Allow hyphens in URL’s using ASP.NET MVC 2
February 6th, 2010
If you wan’t to allow hyphens in your URL’s you will need to change the way the routing works in your Global.asax file.
First create a new class which extends the MvcRouteHandler and place this in the Global.asax file after the main MvcApplication class.
C#:
public class HyphenatedRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler{ protected override IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext) { requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString().Replace("-", "_"); requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString().Replace("-", "_"); return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext); } }
VB:
Public Class HyphenatedRouteHandler Inherits MvcRouteHandler Protected Overrides Function GetHttpHandler(ByVal requestContext As System.Web.Routing.RequestContext) As System.Web.IHttpHandler requestContext.RouteData.Values("controller") = requestContext.RouteData.Values("controller").ToString.Replace("-", "_") requestContext.RouteData.Values("action") = requestContext.RouteData.Values("action").ToString.Replace("-", "_") Return MyBase.GetHttpHandler(requestContext) End Function End Class
Then you need to replace the routes.MapRoute with an equivalent routes.Add specifying the new handler as the MapRoute does not allow you to specify a custom route handler.
C#:
routes.Add( new Route("{controller}/{action}/{id}", new RouteValueDictionary( new { controller = "Default", action = "Index", id = "" }), new HyphenatedRouteHandler()) );
VB:
routes.Add(New Route("{controller}/{action}/{id}", New RouteValueDictionary(New With {.controller = "Home", .action = "Index", .id = ""}), New HyphenatedRouteHandler()))
I hope this is useful, any questions feel free to get in touch.
Would like to say thanks to John from here for answering the original question on Stackoverflow
