I'd like to implement the same thing for my own build providers.
I'm talking about an ASP.NET Webpages application, in Visual Studio: File > New Website > ASP.NET Website (Razor)
Works with Cassini, so it's not an IIS Express thing.
I found it, it's an HTTP module, System.Web.WebPages.WebPageHttpModule
This module checks if the file exists, and if it does it creates a handler from that file and remaps the request to that handler.
Razor is a templating engine. It has nothing to do with URLs. They are handled by the ASP.NET routing engine. Extensionless URLs are supported starting from IIS 7.0. In IIS 6.0 you need to associate the aspnet_isapi extension with all incoming requests if you want to support extensionless urls.
I found this information in regard to the "Routing" that you might find handy if you are building an ASP.Net WebPages site w/o MVC3 and wanted to mention it.
Creating More Readable and Searchable URLs - About Routing
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So Im reading that:
If a file name extension has not been mapped to ASP.NET, ASP.NET will
not receive the request. This is important to understand for
applications that use ASP.NET authentication. For example, because
.htm files are typically not mapped to ASP.NET, ASP.NET will not
perform authentication or authorization checks on requests for .htm
files. Therefore, even if a file contains only static content, if you
want ASP.NET to check authentication, create the file using a file
name extension mapped to ASP.NET, such as .aspx.
which I understand given the obvious .htm <> ASP.net ISAPI mapping in the webserver but what about routes in a route table? I'm not mapping those in the web server so how does the web server know to forward those URLs to ASP.Net??
So there are at least two pieces to this question:
The first is if you are running in IIS in classic mode versus integrated mode. Classic mode will make things behave like IIS 6, where everything is an ISAPI filter, including ASP.NET itself. Integrated mode takes advantage of the fact that IIS 7 was rewritten from the ground-up and now uses modules instead.
Secondly, the short answer of why IIS knows how to forward a URL to ASP.NET is the Routing Module in the IIS 7+ pipeline; ISAPI filters are now part of the ISAPI Filters Module.
For a visual description of how the IIS 7+ pipeline works from a Routing/URL-Rewriting perspective, read IIS URL Rewriting and ASP.NET Routing
So the good news is if you are very much attached to the ISAPI filter approach you can use the classic mode of IIS.
I would like to know if there is a tutorial that teaches how to build your pages in Webmatrix but using .aspx and not razor.
All the tutorials I've found so far only teaches Razor syntax and I can't use that because my webhosting doesn't support .cshtml.
I would like to connect to a database and performs SQL Querys, so a tutorial or article that shows how to do that will work for me.
Thanks.
Not possible. ASP.NET Web Pages (what you're using in WebMatrix) ONLY uses Razor.
I seriously doubt your host doesn't support CSHTML files. If they support .NET 4.0, then they support CSHTML files. Nothing else needs to be installed on their servers.
Your hosting provider doesn't have to support .cshtml pages. Unlike Web Forms, which use a .aspx extension on the URL, and must be mapped in the IIS configuration, Web Pages uses Routing and by default drops the suffix, so no configuration is needed by the hosting provider.
When you publish a Web pages site, it copies the necessary razor rendering files to the bin directory.
It's not possible to have a Web Pages site without Razor.
I have created a blog application with ASP.NET MVC and MSSQL. I must say, i really enjoyed the process of creating an application with ASP.NET MVC. Clean URLS(with URL routing), No view States and so on.
BUT i was wondering how would this would have been done if i choose web-form style coding? will the aspx would be created in the fly as i create a article.(take this url for ex: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/06/announcing-nupack-asp-net-mvc-3-beta-and-webmatrix-beta-2.aspx) though the URL is not clean but still makes sense. if yes then what about its corresponding cs file? if no how is the URL so clean?
Would be great if someone throw some light on how it is done in ASP.NET.
Thank you, Faraaz.
If your using .NET 4, you can make use of MapPageRoute to accomplish the clean URL's with regular Web Forms.
routes.MapPageRoute("MySuperCleanRoute", "some/clean/url", "~/ActualPage.aspx");
With the addition of MapPageRoute, you no longer have the feeling "I should use ASP.NET MVC because i want clean URL's".
Choose ASP.NET MVC if you like the pattern. If your used to Web Forms, use it - and use MapPageRoute to achieve clean URL's (or use a URL Rewriting module if <= .NET 4)
A blog in ASP .NET would have been done in much the same way. The idea is to use one file and URL rewriting. IIS7 has URL rewriting built in but for IIS6 you can use something like ISAPI_Rewrite to handle .htaccess style files (which is what Apache uses).
ASP .NET MVC handles all this for you in its routing but you can do it yourself using a URL rewriting tool. The difference is that for MVC, the application handles the rewriting but ISAPI_Rewrite, IIS Rewriting are done by the server. This can change a URL like http://mysite.com/something/other to http://mysite.com/file.asp?p1=something&p2=other.
The second link is only internal to the server (it doesn't actually change the URL in the user's address bar). In the case of a URL like on Scott's blog, you could store the 'announcing-nupack-asp...' bit in a database as part of the article row so your blog article page has something to look for. The files don't actually exist on the server but the rewriting passes all requests to an existing file with parameters.
Note that this technique is common for lots of different sites - not just blogs. Notice the Stack Overflow URL, Twitter URLs, etc.
MSDN has an old article on URL Rewriting in ASP .NET, along with some examples of filters you can use.
See IIS URL Rewrite Module
You can use the URL Rewriting that is in asp.net MVC with WebForms if you are using .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 (if you don't have access to .Net 4)
Here's an MSDN magazine article explaning...
I noticed a lot of ASP .Net sites does not have the URL ending with ".aspx".
An example would be:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions
Did they create a Questions folder and put a Default.aspx inside?
In that case, wouldn't there be A LOT of default.aspx in many folders which is hard to maintain (even though it is user-friendly)?
Thanks y'all.
StackOverflow is written using ASP.NET MVC. The MVC framework does not use .aspx files.
The way it works internally is by using routing tables - see an overview here.
You can also do this with ASP.NET and .aspx files or you can use URL rewriting. You can read about the differences here.
You can refer to any URL rewriter or a routing technique for that. If you look at the new AS{.NET MVC, it works on that model only.
You can use Url Rewriter to remove extensions from the urls of your website.
ASP.net has a routing framework you can use even if you are not using ASP.net MVC
Official documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668201.aspx
Also as previously stated ASP.net MVC works like this out of the box and you can also use URL Rewriting
With ASP.NET 4.0, you get the benefits of URL routing (nice, clean URLs) with ASP.NET webforms, too — see:
Routing for Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.0
URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
Basically, what you do is define a route like
/question/{id} or /question/{title}
and you then define what ASPX page this is being routed to. Quite nifty!
Is there any way to implement a URL mechanisim in asp.net like it has in asp.net mvc
e.g. mydomain.com/user/myusername but without using the MVC
if so, how?
You do this by using the System.Web.Routing assembly
Here's a blogpost showing how :-)
You can use the same routing mechanism that ASP.NET MVC uses inside of an ASP.NET WebForm application. Check this post by Phil Haack on how to learn more about it.
or
If you don't want to use the routing feature and you want to roll your own, check this question out.
If you have access to IIS:
If it is IIS7, the URL Rewriting module might work.
Set IIS up to process ANY request with ASP.NET, and add an entry to Global.ashx
If it is Apache, use mod_rewrite.
Otherwise, you could use:
http://myserver/Web.aspx/url/1
or:
http://myserver/Url.aspx/1
and process Request.Uri.PathInfo
It has to go to a .aspx file somewhere, as otherwise it will not be processed.
I've done this in the past with ASP.NET 2.0 and the UrlRewrite.Net library
The only trick is that if you want it to work with paths that don't have aspx extensions, you have to configure IIS to pass every request through the ASP.NET engine.
I built a classic ASP.NET (I can't believe this term exists) application around 2005 that used rewriting, and this article on MSDN was very helpful at the time: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx.
If you're constrained to 2.0, or even 1.1, this may be the way to go, as System.Web.Routing is 3.5 only.
IIRF does URL Rewrite for IIS5 and 6.
It supports Regex. Free. Open source.