URL Manipulation in IIS7

Following to my earlier post – on URL Manipulation

For IIS 7 – Can use URL Rewrite Rule -

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="HtmlRewrite">
      <match url="(.*)(\.\w+)$" />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

Refer IIS URL rewriting

 "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

URL Manipulation with RouteBase

2] For URL manipulation  that should ignore the very end extension in url. the extension can be: .html, .aspx, .php

/Home.html should go to Home Controller and 

/Home/index.aspx should go to Home Controller Index Action.

Implement Custom Base entry RouteBase

public class MyUrlRoute : RouteBase
{

    public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        //~/Account/LogOn 
        //~/Home.aspx - Works fine
        //~/home/index.aspx  -Works Fine
        //http://localhost:57282/home/index/1/2/3 - Works fine
        //http://localhost:57282/Account/Register  http://localhost:57282/Account/LogOn - Works Fine

        string url = httpContext.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath;

        //check null for URL
        const string defaultcontrollername  = "Home";
        string[] spliturl = url.Split("//".ToCharArray());
        string controllername = String.Empty;
        string actionname = "Index";



        if (spliturl.Length == 2) //for ~/home.aspx and ~/ 
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(spliturl[1])) //TODO:  http://localhost:57282/ not working - to make it working
            {
                controllername = defaultcontrollername;
            }
            else
            {
                controllername = spliturl[1];
                if (controllername.Contains("."))
                {
                    controllername = controllername.Substring(0, controllername.LastIndexOf("."));
                }
            }
        }
        else if (spliturl.Length == 3) // For #/home/index.aspx and /home/about
        {
            controllername = spliturl[1];
            actionname = spliturl[2];
            if (actionname.Contains("."))
            {
                actionname = actionname.Substring(0, actionname.LastIndexOf("."));
            }
        }
        else //final block in final case sned it to Home Controller
        {
            controllername = defaultcontrollername;
        }


        RouteData rd = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
        rd.Values.Add("controller", controllername);
        rd.Values.Add("action", actionname);
        rd.Values.Add("url", url);
        return rd;
    }

    public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
    {
        return null;
    }

and in global.aspx add below code.

    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.Add(new MyUrlRoute()); // Add before your default Routes

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

    }

Refer SO question

References. :

    // Implementing Custom Base entry - Pro Asp.Net MVc Framework       
    //- http://books.google.com/books?id=tD3FfFcnJxYC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=.net+RouteBase&source=bl&ots=IQhFwmGOVw&sig=0TgcFFgWyFRVpXgfGY1dIUc0VX4&hl=en&ei=z61UTMKwF4aWsgPHs7XbAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=.net%20RouteBase&f=false       
    // phil haack's Route Debugger http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/13/url-routing-debugger.aspx

URL Routing default.aspx ASP.NET MVC

1] In case if  Default.aspx need to be a start up page for  MVC project then 

Add  a new WebForm as a Default.aspx in Root directory ,

set it as Start up page

and on Page Load redirect it to your default URL. -

public partial class _default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Redirect("~/Home");
    }
}