How do you use querystrings with ASP.NET routing?

Question

The new ASP.NET routing is great for simple path style URL's but if you want to use a url such as:

http://example.com/items/search.xhtml?term=Text+to+find&page=2

Do you have to use a catch all parameter with a validation?

Answer 1

You can match querystring parameters with routes as well, if you want to just capture everything you need to add a parameter like so:

{*contentUrl}

Which will populate the rest of the url into that variable.

Answer 2

Any view data items that are not listed in the route are automatically mapped to the querystring, so if you map "items/search.xhtml" to an action:

Search(string term, int page)

Then you should get the results you are looking for.