ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed

Websites tend to be organicthey grow and change over time. This can create problems when other applications link to your application. You need some way of modifying your website without breaking all the existing links to your website.

In this chapter, you learn how to remap URLs. In other words, you learn how to serve a different page than the page a user requests. In the first section of the chapter, you learn how to remap URLs in the web configuration file.

Next, you learn how to remap URLs by creating a custom HTTP module. Using a module is useful when you need to support wildcard matches and other types of pattern matching when remapping a URL.

Finally, you learn how to use the VirtualPathProvider class to remap URLs. You learn how you can store all your website pages in a database. In the last section of this chapter, a simple CMS (Content Management System) is built with the VirtualPathProvider class.