ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Mapping Basic URLs

The first thing that needs to be done to use the URL routing engine is to register your route maps. A route map is just a mapping from a route expression to a physical file on disk (or a controller/action combination in the case of ASP.NET MVC Framework).

These routes are registered at application startup time and the registration is typically wrapped in its own method, as shown in the following code snippet taken from a Global.asax.cs file:

The simplest and most basic type of route is one in which you map a static route directly to an ASPx page without any parameters. You typically see this when the target page takes no parameters ...