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by Scott Guthrie
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Hopefully this post provides some more details about how the ASP.NET MVC Routing architecture works, and how you can use it to customize the structure and layout of the URLs you publish within your ASP.NET MVC applications.

By default when you create a new ASP.NET MVC Web Application it will pre-define a default /[controller]/[action]/[id] routing rule that you can use (without having to manually configure or enable anything yourself). This should enable you to build many applications without ever having to register your own custom routing rules. But hopefully the above post has demonstrated that if you do want to custom structure your own URL formats it isn't hard to-do - and that the MVC framework provides a lot of power and flexibility in doing this.

Hope this helps,

Scott

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Title: The second routing rule above is added to special-case the root "Default.aspx" URL in our application (which is sometimes passed by web servers in pla
Name: The second routing rule above is added to special-case the root "Default.aspx" URL in our application (which is sometime
Date: 2009-02-12 4:24:01 AM
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The second routing rule above is added to special-case the root "Default.aspx" URL in our application (which is sometimes passed by web servers in place of "/" when handling requests for the root URL of an application). This rule ensures that requests for either the root "/Default.aspx" or "/" to our application are handled by the "Index()" action on the "HomeController" class (which is a controller automatically added by Visual Studio when we created a new application using the "ASP.NET MVC Web Application" project templateThe second routing rule above is added to special-case the root "Default.aspx" URL in our application (which is sometimes passed by web servers in place of "/" when handling requests for the root URL of an application). This rule ensures that requests for either the root "/Default.aspx" or "/" to our application are handled by the "Index()" action on the "HomeController" class (which is a controller automatically added by Visual Studio when we created a new application using the "ASP.NET MVC Web Application" project templateThe second routing rule above is added to special-case the root "Default.aspx" URL in our application (which is sometimes passed by web servers in place of "/" when handling requests for the root URL of an application). This rule ensures that requests for either the root "/Default.aspx" or "/" to our application are handled by the "Index()" action on the "HomeController" class (which is a controller automatically added by Visual Studio when we created a new application using the "ASP.NET MVC Web Application" project templateThe second routing rule above is added to special-case the root "Default.aspx" URL in our application (which is sometimes passed by web servers in place of "/" when handling requests for the root URL of an application). This rule ensures that requests for either the root "/Default.aspx" or "/" to our application are handled by the "Index()" action on the "HomeController" class (which is a controller aut

Title: MVC website
Name: Harendra chauhan
Date: 2009-01-27 2:15:12 AM
Comment:
I have ASP .net MVC website created on my machine ,it is runnig fine on my machine ,all links are working but when I hosted is on IIS 5.1 that time home page is assible from other pc on network but all its Links(url routing) is not working,Images are not getting loaded , css is not working.. Plz provide the help if a any... How can make my web app workable ?

Title: Problem Routing Solution
Name: AMS
Date: 2008-10-30 2:27:16 PM
Comment:
lobo,

URL encode the product id when it goes in the url then decode it on the way back out. Should clean it up for you

Title: Problem routing
Name: Lobo
Date: 2008-09-29 2:30:48 PM
Comment:
If you have products id like "7*"
The url used to view this product: /Products/Detail/7*
But this url generate an error... "Illegal characters in path"

How can i resolve this?

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