How to structure mostly static pages in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I have mostly static view pages, for example:

http://www.yoursite.com/games/x-box-360/nba-2k-11.aspx http://www.yoursite.com/games/psp/ben-10.aspx

How can I build this in my controller? This is what I previously encoded in my game controller:

[HandleError]
public class GamesController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult ben-10()
    {    
        return View();
    }
}

But this gives me an error due to a hyphen in the name of the controller action.

How to resolve this?

Answer 1

You may need some sort of catch-all route:

"/games/{platform}/{game}"

You can redirect this route to the controller method:

public class GamesController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult ViewGame(string platform, string game)
    {
        // do whatever
        return View();
    }
}

Answer 2

, - , ActionName , , , :

[ActionName("ben-10")]
public ActionResult ben10()
{    
   return View(); //view is assumed to be ben-10.aspx, not ben10.aspx
}

Answer 3

Definitions are not allowed in method and class names. However, emphasized _. What you can do is rewrite the names of portable pages and replace the hyphen with an underscore.

However, Adrian’s answer makes more sense, otherwise you will create and manage more controllers and actions than is really necessary.