ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter explored several advanced topics related to website navigation. In the first two sections, you learned how to map URLs from one path to another. In the first section, you learned how to configure remappings in the Web configuration file. In the second section, you learned how to build a custom HTTP module, which enables you to use wildcard matches when remapping a URL.

In the final section of this chapter, you learned how to abstract pages in your application from the file system by using the VirtualPathProvider class. The techniques described in this chapter remain in this book mostly for backward compatibility with previous versions of ASP.NET. They still work in ASP.NET 4, but you might want to consider using the new ...