MVC3 structure routes

Question

I have the following website structure:

(Section/SubSection/Pages/1..n)

e.g.
News/Current
News/Archive
News/Current/Pages/23
News/Archive/Pages/3

If the User goes to /News I want them to default to News/Current, otheriwse they see a page above. Similarly,

Events/Latest
Events/London
Events/Latest/Pages/15
Events/Archive/Pages/4

I've got a controller setup for News and Events but how do I create the Actions and global.asax MapRoutes to handle my structure?

I don't want to use Areas for this, just simple Controllers and Actions please. Each View for a section will handle a ViewModel with a ContentPage property from the database?

So each Section will have a View, that will be populated with a ContentPage PartialView.

Thanks

Answer 1

You got two alternatives:

1. Use Areas
2. Create routes for Archive and Latest which makes the section after Pages a parameter containing the page.

Update

The route:

routes.MapRoute(
    "MySuperRoute",
    "{controller}/{section1}/{section2}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "TheHandlingAction", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

And the action:

public ActionResult TheHandlingAction(string section1, string section2, int id)
{
}