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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating SEO-friendly routes


In this recipe, we will learn how to create SEO-friendly routes. To do this, we can use the MVC routing system, the IIS UrlRewriting module, or both.

Getting ready

There are some scenarios where thinking about SEO is mandatory.

We are creating a new version of our website with MVC. But we have a lot of legacy URLs that are already used, or were recorded before the MVC version of our application. We also spent a lot of money for buying keyword to motorsearch as Google to throw all these URLs.

To manage this problem, we will use the IIS UrlRewriting module to redirect the legacy URLs to corresponding controller as an action.

How to do it...

  1. First, we have to install the UrlRewriting module using Web PlateformInstaller:
  1. Next, we add a rule to redirect a legacy URL such as http://localhost:1962/products.ASPX?lang=fr-FR&category=smartphone&subcategory=samsung&id=cadc5808-75a7-4428-b491-3cacfe37d9ce to this existing MUV route: http://localhost:1962/fr-FR/products...