Question

In a VS2010 ASP.Net website is it possible to alter the ‘Specific Page’ at project start up? Basically our startup page requires todays date to be passed in as a query string to prevent people from permanently bookmarking the page.

Obviously this causes headaches for developers as they have to manually change the date on their startup page every day. Is there any way of automatically changing the query string either by using an environment variable of some kind or a build event? Currenty our Start Action is set to:
Specific Page: Example.aspx?date=18/04/2011
it is the part in bold I would like to change when starting the project.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Pseudocode:

void OnBeginRequest()
{
#if DEBUG
    if(Request.Url.Host == "localhost" && Request["date"] == null)
        Redirect(Request.Url + "?date" + DateTime.Today);
#endif
}