Questions about routing within ASP.NET (including MVC).
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Is it possible to make an ASP.NET MVC route based on a subdomain?
Is it possible to have an ASP.NET MVC route that uses subdomain information to determine its route? For example:
user1.domain.com goes to one place
user2.domain.com goes to another?
Or, can I ...
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ASP.NET MVC ambiguous action methods
I have two action methods that are conflicting. Basically, I want to be able to get to the same view using two different routes, either by an item's ID or by the item's name and its parent's (items ...
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Custom ASP.NET MVC 404 Error Page
I am trying to make a custom HTTP 404 error page when someone types in a URL
that doesn't invoke a valid action or controller in ASP.NET MVC.
Instead of it displaying the generic Resource Not Found ...
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How to get current controller and action from inside Child action?
I have a portion of my view that is rendered via RenderAction calling a child action. How can I get the Parent controller and Action from inside this Child Action.
When I use..
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Set “Homepage” in Asp.Net MVC
In asp.net MVC the "homepage" (ie the route that displays when hitting www.foo.com) is set to Home/Index .
Where is this value stored?
How can I change the "homepage"?
Is there anything more ...
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MVC.Net Routing
Here is my scenario. For the example lets say that I need to return a list of cars based on a search criteria. I would like to have a single View to display the results since the output will be the ...
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How can I create a friendly URL in ASP.NET MVC?
How do I generate friendly URLs within the ASP.NET MVC Framework? For example, we've got a URL that looks like this:
http://site/catalogue/BrowseByStyleLevel/1
The 1 is Id of the study level (Higher ...
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jQuery Mobile/MVC: Getting the browser URL to change with RedirectToAction
My first post...
When I use RedirectToAction the url in the browser doesn't change. How can I achieve this?
I'm switching over to ASP.NET MVC 3.0 (also using jQuery Mobile) after 10+ years using web ...
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ASP.NET MVC Areas with shared layout
I have defined an area (Admin) in my ASP.NET MVC 3 application, created _ViewStart.cshtml in that area and addedLayout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml"; to it to have a unified site layout.
I also ...
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How to prevent Url.RouteUrl(…) from inheriting route values from the current request
Note: I'm answering my own question immediately below
Lets say you have an action method to display products in a shopping cart
// ProductsController.cs
public ActionMethod Index(string gender) {
...
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How can I create a route constraint of type System.Guid?
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to map a route which requires two guids?
ie. http://blah.com/somecontroller/someaction/{firstGuid}/{secondGuid}
where both firstGuid and secondGuid ...
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What's the difference in ASP.NET MVC of RedirectToRoute and RedirectToAction?
What's the difference in ASP.NET MVC of RedirectToRoute and RedirectToAction? It's not clear what the difference is to me.
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ASP.NET MVC - MapRoute versus routes.Add (and 404s)
I'm just getting started with ASP.NET MVC.
What is the difference between MapRoute and routes.Add ?
Should I just be using MapRoute? Can I map multiple routes? Which "maps" take precedence... those ...
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2answers
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ASP.NET MVC: URLs with slash in parameter?
Question:
I am creating a wiki software, basically a clone of wikipedia/mediawiki, but in ASP.NET MVC (the MVC is the point, so don't recommend me ScrewTurn).
Now I have a question:
I use this ...
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Difference between “MapHttpRoute” and “MapRoute”?
Why using "MapRoute" for "Default" routing, while using "MapHttpRoute" for "DefaultApi" routing?
routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: ...
