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 custom routing for search
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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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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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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How does a method in MVC WebApi map to an http verb?
In the 5-minute video at the following link, at the 1:10 mark, Jon Galloway says that adding a method called DeleteComment to his CommentsController controller class will by convention map ...
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ASP.NET MVC Routing - add .html extension to routes
i am pretty new to MVC and Routing and i was asked to modify an app to use diffrent url's.
a task that is a bit over me since i have no experience.
ok, lets talk a bit of code:
routes.MapRoute(
...
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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 reuse Areas, Controllers, Views, Models, Routes in multiple apps or websites
I have a test solution which only has one area called Admin.
I would like to reuse Admin across a number of other web applications.
I have a web application setup in IIS, I have then added a virtual ...
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asp.net mvc complex routing for tree path
I am wondering how can I define a routing map like this:
{TreePath}/{Action}{Id}
TreeMap is dynamically loaded from a database like this:
'Gallery/GalleryA/SubGalleryA/View/3'
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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 RouteData and arrays
If I have an Action like this:
public ActionResult DoStuff(List<string> stuff)
{
...
ViewData["stuff"] = stuff;
...
return View();
}
I can hit it with the following URL:
...
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Infinite URL Parameters for ASP.NET MVC Route
I need an implementation where I can get infinite parameters on my ASP.NET Controller. It will be better if I give you an example :
Let's assume that I will have following urls :
...
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MVC 2 AreaRegistration Routes Order
I noticed that in MVC 2 Preview 2, AreaRegistration is loading the routes for each area in an arbitrary order. Is there a good way to get one before the other?
For example, I have two areas - "Site" ...
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ASP.Net MVC routing legacy URLs passing querystring Ids to controller actions
We're currently running on IIS6, but hoping to move to IIS 7 soon.
We're moving an existing web forms site over to ASP.Net MVC. We have quite a few legacy pages which we need to redirect to the new ...
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ASP.NET MVC Default route?
I created a new ASP.NET MVC project and implemented a site authorization filter.
When I map the routes to the {controller}/{action} pair, I pass a role = "SomeRole" default to the route.
It works ...
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Implementing “Remember Me” Feature in ASP.NET MVC
I'm trying to implement a "remember me" feature to my login form. I am using ASP.NET MVC as my web application. I managed to get the cookie stuff working, but I failed to automatically login the user ...
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Routing in Asp.net Mvc 4 and Web Api
Can I use the following two route rule together ?
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "ActionApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = ...
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ASP.net MVC custom route handler/constraint
I need to implement an MVC site with urls per below:
category1/product/1/wiki
category1/product/2/wiki
category1/sub-category2/product/3/wiki
category1/sub-category2/sub-category3/product/4/wiki
...
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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 is routes.IgnoreRoute(“{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}”)
What is routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}")
I cannot find any .axd file in my project, can I remove this route rule?
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How to get RouteData by URL?
I need to get RoutData by given URL string in ASP.NET MVC application.
I've found the way that I need to mock HttpContextBase based on my URL string and then pass it to ...
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Trailing slash on an ASP.NET MVC route
In the latest MVC preview, I'm using this route for a legacy URL:
routes.MapRoute(
"Legacy-Firefox", // Route name
"Firefox-Extension/", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = ...
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.NET WebAPI Attribute Routing and inheritance
I am playing around with the idea of having a base controller that uses a generic repository to provide the basic CRUD methods for my API controllers so that I don't have to duplicate the same basic ...
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Route with Two optional parameters in MVC3 not working
I have a following types of url used in my Application.
localhost/admin/userdetail/id
localhost/admin/userdetail/id/true
localhost/admin/userdetail/id/true/success
Here is my Admin ...
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1answer
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ASP.NET MVC Route with values before the controller and no trailing slash
This is probably a simple question but I just can't get it to work.
I've got this route specified in my RouteConfig
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultSiteRoute",
url: ...
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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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How to achieve a dynamic controller and action method in ASP.NET MVC?
In Asp.net MVC the url structure goes like
http://mysite.com/{controller}/{action}/{id}
For each "controller", say http://mysite.com/blog, there is a BlogController.
But my {controller} portion of ...
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votes
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Can Areas in an ASP.NET MVC 2 application map to a subdomain?
Is there a way to map the Areas within an ASP.NET MVC 2 application to subdomains such as
movies.example.com/Theater/View/2
instead of
example.com/Movies/Theater/View/2
where { area = "Movies", ...
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2answers
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Lower case URLs in ASP.NET MVC
Is it possible to force/extend the routing engine to generate URLs in lower case, giving /controller/action instead of /Controller/Action?
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Plus (+) in MVC Argument causes 404 on IIS 7.0
I have an MVC route that is giving me hell on a staging server running IIS. I am running Visual Studio 2010's development server locally.
Here is a sample URL that actually works on my dev box:
...
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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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How to determine if an arbitrary URL matches a defined route
How can I tell if a string matches a particular named route?
I have a route like this:
routes.MapRoute(
"FindYourNewRental",
"find-your-new-rental/{market}/{community}.html",
new { ...
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1answer
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How to make IRouteConstraint filter route
I wrote a custom route constraint, but its filter just doesn't get recognized. Does anyone have an example working use of IRouteConstraint ?
Also, note to developers: I get double display of the ...
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How can I check if a route (ASP.NET MVC) exists for a given path?
I have a list of local URL’s and I need to determine if they are “valid MVC paths”. How can I check if a URL (path) maps to a MVC controller?
Phil Haack's Route Debugger will find a route that match ...
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asp.NET: Unknown length MVC paths
I am building a MVC application in asp.NET for a web portal. I have prepared a series of controllers, and mapped all the paths that don't macth to this to a Page controller, which will render the ...
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Possible Bug With ASP.NET MVC 3 Routing?
Normally i wouldn't put a title like this in the question, but i'm pretty sure it's a bug (or by design?)
I created a brand new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application.
Then i went to the /Home/About page.
...
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Differentiate Guid and string Parameters in MVC 3
Using the out-of-the-box method locators in ASP.NET MVC (3 or 4DP), is there a way to have the MVC framework differentiate between a string and Guid without needing to parse the parameter in the ...
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Dot character in ASP.NET MVC 3 route parameters
I have no custom routes in my application, only the default one. If i try to open localhost/myapp/controller/action/bla.bla it works fine on my machine (Windows 7 x32, both Cassini and IIS) but fails ...
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How can I get controller type and action info from a url or from route data?
How can I get the controller action (method) and controller type that will be called, given the System.Web.Routing.RouteData?
My scenario is this - I want to be able to do perform certain actions (or ...
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Can anyone recreate the following bug I'm experiencing in routes with 2 or more optional parameters, in .NET 4.0 / MVC3?
I know that if you think you found a bug in the .NET framework you are most likely wrong, but that's why I'm writing this question, so please hear me out.
I am fairly certain that there is a ...
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How do I use Server.Transfer method in asp.net MVC?
I am trying to use it for Login page.
if (Session["UserID"] == null)
Server.Transfer("/Account/Login", true);
But I get The Exception -> Error executing child request /Account/Login.
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2answers
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url with extension not getting handled by routing
I've been folowing the advice from this article for setting up a robots.txt file in asp.net mvc3 for using a controller to handle the server response, and IIS 8.0 express is returning a file not found ...
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Considerations when turning on RouteExistingFiles
I am looking to generate some CSS files dynamically in my Content folder.
At the moment, this folder has an ignore route (routes.IgnoreRoute("Content/{*wildcard}");) and, I'd like that to remain, as ...
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AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas() is not Registering Rules For Area
I have an MVC 4 web application which consists some areas. I have a problem with the routing rules of an area named "Catalog". The RouteConfig.cs file is:
public static void ...
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How to make ASP.NET Routing escape route values?
I have an ASP.NET MVC site where I want routes like /{controller}/{id}/{action}/{date}, where "date" is the mm/dd/yyyy portion of a date/time. (I'm dealing with time-dimensioned data, so I need both ...
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Dynamically modify RouteValueDictionary
As a followup of this question, I'm trying to implement a custom route constraint in order to dynamically modify the RouteValueDictionary for a specific route.
I'm 95% of the way there: I can match ...
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need help canonicalizing an HTTP GET form in asp.net mvc
I have a form in an asp.net mvc site that serves 3 purposes: paging, sorting, and searching. These items should all be rendered in the same form, since returning the correct search results depends on ...
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Handle Invalid URL in MVC
How to handle invalid URLs in MVC?
For ex.: When the user enters http://localhost/User/MyProfile instead of
http://localhost/User/Profile, it will throw an exception.
How to handle this request?
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asp.net mvc multilanguage urls/routing
This is a two part question regarding asp.net mvc multilanguage urls/routing and SEO best practices/benefits…
Question Part 1)
I’m being asked to create a new ASP.NET MVC website that will support a ...
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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) {
...
