This is the introduction of a new Nuget package called ActionParameterAlias.

Have you ever had a URL:

http://example.com?productid=123456

where you wanted to bind it with an ASP.NET MVC action like this?

   1:  public ActionResult Search(Product product)

   2:  {

   3:      //...

   4:      return View(product);

   5:  }

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Chris Missal was discussing this for a project, so we worked together and came up with an action filter that enables the use of aliases.  More specifically, the following allows the same action to accept url with a query string parameter matching it or any of the aliases.

   1:  [ParameterAlias("Product", "pid", Order = 1)]

   2:  [ParameterAlias("Product", "p_id", Order = 2)]

   3:  [ParameterAlias("Product", "productid", Order = 3)]

   4:  public ActionResult Search(Product product)

   5:  {

   6:      //...

   7:      return View(product);

   8:  }

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Just head on over to Nuget and go grab it.  This is a feature that I’d like to see make it into the next version of the framework.  It’s so tiny of a feature, but so many folks have parameter names that are just a bit off because there is no way to add aliases currently.

To check out the code, clone it from BitBucket here: https://bitbucket.org/jeffreypalermo/action-parameter-alias or on the Nuget gallery at http://nuget.org/packages/ActionParameterAlias/4.0.0.