ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Basic URL Routing Scenarios

Now that you’ve had an introduction to what URL routing is and why you might want to use it, let’s take a look at some of the basics of how to use URL routing in your Web Forms application. The ASP.NET MVC Framework also makes use of the URL routing engine, but it does so in a slightly different way. The MVC Framework uses the routing engine to map routes to controllers and actions with parameters whereas ASP.NET Web Forms applications use the routing engine to map routes to physical files on disk and supply parameters to those pages.