Question

I am writing classic asp.net website and struggling with a problem.

Usually in URL send data by doing this: localhost/MyrandomPage.aspx?UserName=RandomUsername

But i am trying to make a page more personal so i want Url to look like this:

localhost.com/Profile/RandomUsername

And i am cant find a way how to retrive RandomUserName after slash in Url.

ive done Routing:

    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.MapPageRoute("",
            "/Pages/{UserName}",
            "~/Pages/Profile.aspx");
    }

But how do i retrive UserName??

Answer 1

You should be able to get it using
Page.RouteData.Values["UserName"] as string

Scott Gu has a good blog post covering routing in webforms.