how to route to css/js files in mvc.net

Question

I am trying to add an area to my application using routing in mvc.net. For controllers i added:

routes.MapRoute(
                \"Area1\", // Route name
            


        

Answer 1

I did not find a way of doing this with mvc routing what i ended up doing is: I ran this code in a http module:

void context_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            HttpApplication Application = sender as HttpApplication;

            var match = r.Match(Application.Request.Url.AbsolutePath);
            if (match.Success)
            {
                var fileName = match.Groups[2].Value;
                Application.Context.RewritePath("/" + fileName);
            }
        }

r is a regex in my case:

private readonly Regex r = new `Regex("^/gmail(/canvas)?/((content|scripts|images|tinymce).*)$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);`

in global.asax i added:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{*staticfile}", new { staticfile = @".*\.(css|js|gif|jpg)(/.*)?" });

to prevent mvc.net from routing these requests.

one might also have to set iis6/iis7 to route requests to static files through mvc.net but i forgot the details.

I picked this method up from several posts that i cannot remember so i apologize that i cannot give proper credit.