For one of the first blog posts of the new year, I thought about doing something cool. And being someone working with ASP.NET MVC, I thought about a cool thing related to that: let’s do something with routes! Since System.Web.Routing is not limited to ASP.NET MVC, this post will also play nice with ASP.NET Webforms. But what’s the cool thing? How about… translating route values?
Allow me to explain… I’m tired of seeing URLs like http://www.example.com/en/products and http://www.example.com/nl/products. Or something similar, with query parameters like “?culture=en-US”. Or even worse stuff. Wouldn’t it be nice to have http://www.example.com/products mapping to the English version of the site and http://www.exaple.com/producten mapping to the Dutch version? Better to remember when giving away a link to someone, better for SEO as well.
Of course, we do want both URLs above to map to the ProductsController in our ASP.NET MVC application. We do not want to duplicate logic because of a...