I was messing round with testing my pages and I noticed that if you have a Default.aspx page in a folder, you can redirect to the folders root and the page will load without the "Default.aspx" in the URL.

I like it and for this new project I am working on I have organized my file structure so that every page has it's own directory and inside is a Default.aspx page.

This sounds like overkill but it's actually not bad at all. Everything is still well organized and my URL's are nice and clean.


*The question is, is it this a hack and will it cause problems later on? I make sure to use only asp:hyperlinks by the way.


Thanks.

Hi there,

This certainly works and won't break anything. It's the same concept that enables you to browse to something like www.domainname.com without specifying a page name. This is handled with a concept called Default Documents where IIS serves the first configured Default Document it finds in a folder when you don't explicitly specify one.

However, ASP.NET has a better mechanism to make this work: Routing.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi...-0-series.aspx
https://www.google.com/?q=asp.net+webforms+routing

Cheers,

Imar

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