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Asked: 2026-05-16T13:57:14+00:00

I’ve got webform routing setup on my asp.net webforms 3.5sp1 project. I would like

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I’ve got webform routing setup on my asp.net webforms 3.5sp1 project. I would like to have the files for the site in a directory called content including the home page as I would like to run multiple sites using the same system.

In MVC there is a blank default page and the home page is in a folder called home. I can’t seem to replicate this behaviour using web form routing but would like to. The blank page is always hit first. the route handler is hit second – it recognises that the request is for the home page and sets up the routing page but is not used. the route handler code is simple:

    public string VirtualPath { get; private set; }

    public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext
          requestContext)
    {
        string file = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("File");
        string id = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("Id");
        string queryString = "?menuid=" + id;
        VirtualPath = "~/" + file;
        HttpContext.Current.RewritePath(
          string.Concat(
          VirtualPath,
          queryString));

        var page = BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath
             (VirtualPath, typeof(Page)) as IHttpHandler;
        return page;
    }

Is there anyway I can do this?

Update
Here is my global.asax route code:

    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        Domain.RepositoryFactory repo = new RepositoryFactory();
        foreach (var x in repo.MenuRepository.GetAllEnabledGetMenus())
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(x.Url))
            {
                //add default
                System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes.Add(
                    new Route("Default.aspx", 
                        new RouteValueDictionary(new { File = x.FileName, 
                                                      Id = x.Id.ToString() }),
                              new CoreRouteHandler()));
            }
            else
            {
                string url = x.Url;
                if(x.Url.StartsWith("/"))
                {
                    url = url.Remove(0, 1);
                }
                System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes.Add(
                    new System.Web.Routing.Route(url,
                        new RouteValueDictionary(new {File = x.FileName,
                                                      Id = x.Id.ToString()}),
                          new CoreRouteHandler()));
            }

        }

    }
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  1. Editorial Team

    ok I got it working bit of a doh! moment.

    I found this link while googling:

    http://blog.ysatech.com/post/2010/07/11/ASP-NET-4-URL-Routing-Default-Page.aspx

    all I needed to do was leave the route blank and delete the default.aspx file from the root of the site.

    I also copied in the default system.webserver bis from a new MVC project as i think what i had there wasn’t right. I’m upgrading an old project and so think it wasn’t configured 100%. specifically: was missing.

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