ASP.NET 4.0 webforms routing
- by Ethan
I have an existing site that I'd like to convert to use routing, and after reading Scott Guthrie's post here, I built a working sample that works for most circumstances. However, since not all of the pages on the existing site match a particular pattern, I'll need to check against a database to determine which route (destination .aspx page) to use.
For example, most pages are like this:
http://www.mysite.com/people/person.html
This is fine - I can easily route these to the view_person.aspx page because of the 'people' directory.
But some pages are like this:
http://www.mysite.com/category_page.html
http://www.mysite.com/product_page.html
This necessitates checking the database to see whether to route to the view_category.aspx page or the view_product.aspx page. And this is where I'm stuck. Do I create an IRouteHandler that checks the database and returns the route? Or is there a better way? The only code I've found that kind of fits is the answer to this question.
Thanks in advance.
