When you create a ASP.NET MVC 2 web application in Visual Studio, it gives you a default MVC site. It shows 2 menus [Home] and [About]. When you hover these menus it gives you this URL:
Why is About under Home?
I want menu links like
How can I do this?
About is under Home because it's an action under the HomeController.
If you want to access about using /About, set up a new route in your Global.asax. Example:
routes.MapRoute("About", "About", new { controller = "Home", action = "About" }
You have two actions defined on the Home controller: Index and About. The Index action is defined as the default action for the site. For this reason http://localhost:1234 resolves to http://localhost:1234/Home/Index. You could set a new route to accomplish this:
routes.MapRoute(
"About",
"About",
new { controller = "Home", action = "About", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
You've got a few options here, you can either map routes individually as Darin and Alexn are showing, or you can do something like this:
routes.MapRoute("Home", "{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "index", id = "" });
See how there's no controller defined in the path? This should mean you can just say /About or /SomeOtherAction. The limitation here is that it's going to match a lot of routes, and they'll all go to the home controller unless you add more specific routes above.
Putting about under any folder is a matter of personal choice.
If you would like to see the about file in a different folder structure the neat way of doing this in my opinion would be
1)Create a new folder in views called About. 2)Move the About.html file into this folder 3)Create a new file under Controllers folder called AboutController.cs 4) find the tag return View(); in the above created file and replace it with return View("About");
If you would like to add more files under About section(eg:about-autor.html,about-fundinghouse.html) you could continue to add it in the about folder and make the necessary change in the controller to return the respective view.