ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Mapping URLs with Parameters

Static route mappings come in handy, but any application that has any kind of dynamic nature or is driven by an underlying data source is, at some point, going to need parameters passed on the query string. Mapping parameters within a route expression and making those parameters available to the target page is actually quite simple. Thankfully we don’t (yet) need to worry about regular expressions!

Let’s assume that you’re creating a web application that has blogging functionality. Rather than force users to create (or look at) some horribly complicated URL syntax that might even include the GUID of the blog post, you can use URL routing to simplify that URL syntax.

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