If like me you decide to use Friendly URLs you will at some point need to download and inplement a URL Rewriter.
For example say you have a blog article called Url Rewriter, passing title as the parameter in the querystring the url would be
http://www.yoursite.com/article.aspx?Title= Url%20Rewriter.
Converting this 'dirty' url to the more friendly
http://www.yoursite.com/article/url-rewriter.aspx
will result in problems when trying to locate the article in the database. The title field actually holds Url Rewriter and not url-rewriter and therfore the article will not be found.
The open source URL Rewriter is avalilable for download from
Simply download the source files and follow the online instructions. In all probability you will need to create and register a Custom Transform.
To create a custom transform class to transform hyphens back to spaces right click App_Code > Add New Item > Class. Name the class something like HyphenToSpace and choose vb as the language. Copy and paste the code below:
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System
Imports System.Web
Imports Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.Utilities
Namespace Intelligencia.UrlRewriter
Public Class HyphenToSpace
Implements IRewriteTransform
Public Function ApplyTransform(ByVal input As String) As String Implements Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.IRewriteTransform.ApplyTransform
Return input.Replace("-", " ")
Public ReadOnly Property Name() As String Implements Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.IRewriteTransform.Name
Get
End Class
End Namespace
To register the transform copy and paste the code below to your web.config file:
<rewriter>
<registertransform= "Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.HyphenToSpace,App_Code" />
</rewriter>
Then set the rule:
<rewrite url="~Article/(.+).aspx" to "~/Article.aspx?Title=${transform($1)}" />
Note that the tilde (~) only works with sever controls