Building querystring in routing webforms .net 4.0

Question

I'm trying out .net 4.0 routing with Webforms for the first time and I'm running into a problem. The page I'm routing to is looking for a querystring based on the route url.

For Example:

routes.MapPageRoute(
"Rule2",                               // Route name
"news/{day}/{month}/{year}/{.*}.aspx", // Route URL
"~/mynews.aspx"                        // Web page to handle route
);

I want the final route to send mynews.aspx?story={day}{month}{year}. But I can't figure it out. I found this to be some help http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668177.aspx but request.querystring("story") gives me nothing.

Any words of wisdom?

graham mendick · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-25 18:30:59Z

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Normally you wouldn't have 'aspx' in the route URL because you'd want a user friendly one. So, the route URL would be "news/{day}/{month}/{year}/{.*}" and a valid URL 'news/25/5/2012', for example.

Then to access the data you use

string day = (string) RouteData.Values["day"].

answered May 25, 2012 at 18:30

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invisiblestupid Over a year ago

Which makes sense. So I can no longer use querystrings and will have to change the code in the website look for routedata values and not querystring. Sigh...I guess I'm just too old school and don't cotton to these new-fangled ideas. Thanks for your help.

invisiblestupid Over a year ago

Well, Graham answered my question. I ended up going a slightly different route but he gets props for getting me where I need to go. Thank you.

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