Question

I am going through a weird problem right now regarding routing in ASP.NET WebForms. The only reason I am trying to use routing is to achieve better looking URLs and nothing else. Also, this is the first time ever I am trying to implement routing.

My goal is simply:
http://www.domain.com/default.aspx –> http://www.mydomain.com/Home-Page

So, I have implemented the following in my global.asax

Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes)
End Sub

and

Sub RegisterRoutes(ByVal routes As RouteCollection)
    routes.MapPageRoute("homepage", "Home-Page", "~/Default.aspx")
End Sub

The goal is achieved however, all the images on my pages disappeared for logical reasons;
instead of locating img/someimage.png it was trying to get Home-Page/img/someimage.png

Now, I can of course correct the path for my images but that is going to take quite a long time. I would gladly get rid of routing instead.

My question:
Is there any way to prevent folders (images, css, js etc.) from getting affected by the routing mechanism and only achieve nice URLs?

Answer 1

You can tell routing to ignore specific file types. Make sure this entry comes before the specific routes.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{file}.png")