Question

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Compiler: Visual Studio 2012
Language: ASP.net C# 4
Additional Notes: Using a Master page with a script manager on. The Content pages have the AJAX panels.

In my Global.asax, I have a routing table that routes these addresses:

//Site
routes.MapPageRoute("", "{address}", "~/{address}.aspx");   
routes.MapPageRoute("", "{address}/{resource}", "~/{address}/{resource}.aspx");

This allows me to cut out the .aspx part of the page, and makes the URL look more pleasing.

When I run my site for the first time (After I restart the compiling PC), all the AJAX panels stop working. Any auto complete extender, button, text box etc loose their AJAX abilities.

I realised this was the problem, so I edited out the above code. As expected, the site restored itself to fix the AJAX issue.

But, after the previous solution, I unedited the first bit of code, only to find that all my AJAX panels still work. So, I literally have to comment out the code, reload the site, then uncomment the code for the pages to start working.

Answer 1

You need to add a route that manages the resource extensions.

The following code fixed my problem:

void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    //Make sure to add this BEFORE any other routes.
    routes.Ignore("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    //Site
    routes.MapPageRoute("", "{address}", "~/{address}.aspx");
    routes.MapPageRoute("", "{address}/{resource}", "~/{address}/{resource}.aspx");
}

Thanks to This post.