ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Linking to Other Pages with Routes

So far we’ve looked at a bunch of ways we can get a user from a URL to a page, but what about going the other way? When the user is on an ASP.NET Web Form, how do we create links to other pages in a way that respects the URL routing scheme without giving each page “magic” knowledge of how the URLs are formatted?

Basically what we want is to keep all the URL routing logic inside the single initialization method at application startup. We never want individual Web Forms to be creating links with hard-coded strings or string concatenation because those pages would cease to work properly if the URL route maps changed.

Ideally, we want to create URLs dynamically by supplying parameters and, optionally, the name of ...