Routing

When adding custom routing in MVC, any custom routing must go BEFORE the default. For example:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
  {
   routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
 
            routes.MapRoute(
                 name: "Zing",
                 url: "zing/{type}/{p}",
                 defaults: new { controller = "zing", action = "Index", type = UrlParameter.Optional }
             );
 
   routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );
  }

ToTitleCase method

The following lets you format a whole string in Title format; for example 'the news today' becomes 'The News Today' when applied. string val = new CultureInfo("en-GB", false).TextInfo.ToTitleCase(val as String);