Purpose of ActionName

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It allows you to start your action with a number or include any character that .net does not allow in an identifier. – The most common reason is it allows you have two Actions with the same signature (see the GET/POST Delete actions of any scaffolded controller)

For example: you could allow dashes within your url action name http://example.com/products/create-product vs http://example.com/products/createproduct or http://example.com/products/create_product. 

public class ProductsController {

    [ActionName("create-product")]
    public ActionResult CreateProduct() {
        return View();
    }

}

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