Hide Page Extensions (Like StackOverflow)

Question

I want to hide page extensions like stackoverflow does. How does the following work?

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/foo
http://stackoverflow.com/tags/bar
         


        

Answer 1

That's the beauty and the work of ASP.NET MVC.

No "hiding" - it's just the way ASP.NET MVC handles URL's and maps those "routes" to controller actions on your controller classes.

Quite a big step away from the "classic" ASP.NET Webforms way of doing things.