How to remove Home from HomeController in Mvc

Question

I have a HomeController and it has many Actions in it. I would like users to visit my actions without typing Home. Here is the Route below

routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

I would like users not to enter controller name, which is Home in this case. How can I do that? Or is it mandatory?

Answer 1

Solution 01 (attribute routing)

Add below line on the top of the other routes in RouteConfig

        routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();

Then add an attribute route on top of each action as you want. (actions in the home controller in this case)
eg. Below code sample will remove "/Home" from http://site/Home/About and be available on http://site/About

[Route("About")] 
public ActionResult About()
{

Solution 02 (using a Route constraint) [ Source ]

Add a new route mapping to RouteConfig as below. (Remember to add these specific routes before the default (generic) routes.

routes.MapRoute(
    "Root",
    "{action}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
    new { isMethodInHomeController = new RootRouteConstraint<HomeController>() }
);

This will remove "Home" from all the actions (routes) of the Home controller RootRouteConstraint class

public class RootRouteConstraint<T> : IRouteConstraint
{
    public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
    {
        var rootMethodNames = typeof(T).GetMethods().Select(x => x.Name.ToLower());
        return rootMethodNames.Contains(values["action"].ToString().ToLower());
    }
}

Optional Info: This line (constraint) will make sure to apply this routing only for the HomeController

new { isMethodInHomeController = new RootRouteConstraint<HomeController>