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how can i change-hide controller name from url in asp.net MVC

I'm working on a project using MVC-5. when i run my application, I'm getting this URL: http://192.169.235.120/home/home , but i want it to be like this: http://192.169.235.120/home
so is this possible in MVC-5

You could either change the route as stated in Ahmad's answer or rename your action to Index. MVC automatically routes to http://{host}/ControllerName/ActionName; in your case this seems to be the action "Home" on controller "Home". Rename your action "Home" to "Index" and you'll be able to acces http://{host}/Home, don't forget to rename your view as well.

You should map new route in the Global.asax or RouteConfig.cs if you're using MVC 4, (add it before the default one), for example:
routes.MapRoute("SpecificRoute", "{action}/{id}", new {controller = "MyController", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional});
// default route
routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new {controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional} );
Hope this is helpful :)

How To Change Default View In MVC 4 Web Application

By default, MVC 4 in Visual Studio 2017 sets _Layout.cshtml as the default layout for all pages. I believe it's doing this in App_Start/RouteConfig.cs:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
(Index is set as the home page)
I'm still not sure how Index is getting _Layout.cshtml. But what if I'm trying to set a different view - a login page - as the home page, like this?
Also I'm trying to get rid of the Reports, Accounts, Settings, and Logout <li>'s in the header so that the page matches the design above. I'll also need a container with a form inside of it.
I've tried creating a _Login view inside of /Home and /Shared and changed "Index" to "Login" in App_Start/RouteConfig.cs:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Login", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
But that's giving me an error:
How can I create a view and set that view as the default view for this MVC 4 Web App? Thanks

What you see in the defaults parameters as action is the name of the controller's method, not view, so you should create a method named Login in the Home controller and create the associated View for that (In the Login method right click and choose Add View). Then it will act as the default home page.
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Login", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
So your Home controller looks like this:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public IActionResult Login()
{
return View();
}
//other codes
}
Also if you do not want the default layout to be used in the Login page you may add this at top of the Login page
#{
Layout = "";
}

The error you see doesn't seem to be because of the layout page.
This error is because the Login Action is missing in the Home controller.
You see, The defaults specified are Controlller="Home", Action="Login".
i.e. The compiler looks for the Login action in the Home controller. and when it doesn't find, it throws this error!
you could get rid of it by adding the login action like:
public ActionResult Login(string Uname, string Password)
{
return View();
}
in the home controller! That's for the error in the question.
Here is the solution for your problem.
You could add a different layout for each of your views by adding a razor code like below, to specify the layout for the view.
#{
Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
//This is the path to the layout. You could change this to your custom layout's path.
}
Hope this helps!

urls like "home.asp" redirect in mvc

I need to rebuild a website (in old they use classic ASP but they want to make it now MVC 4) and they dont want to change the urls. for example if the search screen's url is blabla.com/search.asp they want to keep it like this. But mvc doesn't allow to make urls like "search.asp". I want to keep url like this but render search View. Am I need to do this all one by one or there is a dynamic way for it?
for example
requested url = "blabla.com/string variable"
if variable.Substring(variable.Length - 4) == ".asp";
return View("variable.Substring(0, (variable.Length - 4))")
Note: Syntax is all wrong, I know. I just tried to explain the condition..
Note2: They want this because of "SEO" things. they don't want to lose their ratings. any method that doesn't change anything for google, they will accept that method I guess.

You need two things.
Define a route for *.asp
Add an handler for *.asp
RouteConfig
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultAsp",
url: "{controller}/{action}.asp/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
Handler (WebConfig)
(This one needs to be inserted inside /system.webServer/handlers
<add name="AspFileHandler" path="*.asp" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
Doing this you are also making all URL's built with MVC available with .asp, that means that if you have an anchor that calls another View, that view will have the normal mvc URL with .asp suffix.
Note
This is generic, you only need to add this line once.
Home/Index displayed are just the default Controller and Action.
Note 2
Forgot to explain the handler.
You need it because IIS thinks you are asking for an ASP file an it'll try to reach that page and return an error since it doesn't exist.
With this handler you are allowing your application to handle those pages itself.

MVC does allows you to write a Route containing an extension, and pointing it to a specific Controller:
In RouteConfig.cs:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.MapRoute("Test", "test.asp", new {controller = "Test", action = "test" });
}
Then, in your TestController.cs:
public class TestController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Test()
{
var obj = new Foo();
//Do some processing
return View(obj);
}
}
In this way, you can access http://www.foo.com/test.asp without issues, and maintaining the .asp your client requires.

How to create url route for specific Controller and Action in asp.net mvc3

I am working in Asp.net mvc3 application.I have created url for product detail page like this
routes.MapRoute(
"ProductDetail",
"{category}/{title}-{id}",
new { controller = "ProductDetail", action = "Index" }
);
for other controller using this
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
Following code creating this url
www.example.com/Shoes/blackshoes-100
Now Problem is that i want to use this url for ProductDetail page if add any other controller and action name it will redirect to ProductDetail page like this
www.example.com/Home/Index-100
How can i restrict this url for ProductDetail Page?
is this right way to do this?
I wan to hide Controller and Action of Productdetail page.
Category,title and id values are changing for every product.

You have to define routes for any other page you have and map those routes before you map your peoduct detail route. Then the route maching mechanism will find them first and use them.
Of course you do not have to map route for every single action. You can create some prefixes for example for diffrent controllers like example below, to catch all routes for Home controller actions:
routes.MapRoute(
"Home",
"Home/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }
);

How do I make this ASP.NET MVC Route for a twitter-style URL work?

trying to map the following style of route: http://site.com/username in the same way that you can do http://www.twitter.com/user
My initial solution was to have these routes:
//site.com/rathboma - maps to user details for rathboma
routes.MapRoute("Users", "{id}", new { controller = "Users", action = "Details" });
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "oneday" } // Parameter defaults
);
And that was working fine, until I tried to do the following in my 'Links' controller:
public ActionResult Details(string id)
{
int newId;
if (!int.TryParse(id, out newId))
return RedirectToAction("Index");
WebLink results = Service.GetWebLink(newId, 5);
if (results == null)
return RedirectToAction("Index");
return View(results);
}
These RedirectToAction methods try and return the browser to http://site.com/Users (I do have a users controller) instead of directing to http://site.com/Links/index
Why is this is happening?
How should I be organizing my routes to make this work properly?
I'm happy sacrificing http://site.com/links and moving to http://site.com/links/index if I have to. But how would I enforce that?
Thanks to all for any help
EDIT:
I know what's causing this, it's trying to redirect to http://site.com/links (the index page), but links is being picked up as a username and redirecting to /users/details, when it can't find the user 'links' it tries to redirect to the UsersController Index action which maps to /users, and the cycle continues ('users' is not a user it can find so redirects infinately).
So I guess My sub-question is: how to I make mvc always use /links/index instead of just using /links for the index page?

Try adding this route before your Users route:
routes.MapRoute("Links",
"{controller}/{id}",
new { controller = "Links", action = "Details" });
This should then work for
http://mysite.com/Links/id
&
http://mysite.com/username

I believe changing RedirectToAction("Index"); to RedirectToAction("Index", "Links"); in your Links controller should solve the issue without having to change your routes.
The problem is you have two very greedy routes. What I'd do is to break apart the default route to less greedy routes like this :
routes.MapRoute("Links",
"Links/{id}",
new { controller = "Links", action = "Index" });
routes.MapRoute("Users",
"{id}",
new { controller = "Users", action = "Details" });
routes.MapRoute("Default",
"",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
Causing the urls to be like the following :
site.com/links/5 - hits the Links controller
site.com/name - hits the Users controller
site.com/ - hits the home controller