How to route a .aspx page in asp.net mvc 3 project?

Question

I have a .aspx page in the following path:

Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx

I want to route that to the following path in my brows

Answer 1

if you leave the default routing when you create the asp.net project

public class ReportsController : Controller
{
        public ActionResult Ticket()
        {
            return View();
        }        
}

this should do the trick. The routing in asp.net mvc means that you don't link directly to .aspx but to Actions (methods) that in turn return an appropriate view (.aspx)

Answer 2

Solved! So, we need to add a route contraint to the webforms route to ensure that it only catches on incoming routes, not outgoing route generation.

Add the following class to your project (either in a new file or the bottom of global.asax.cs):

public class MyCustomConstaint : IRouteConstraint{
    public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection){
        return routeDirection == RouteDirection.IncomingRequest;
    }
}

Then change the Tickets route to the following:

routes.MapPageRoute(
    "Tickets",
    "Reports/Tickets",
    "~/WebForms/Reports/Tickets.aspx",
    true, null, 
    new RouteValueDictionary { { "outgoing", new MyCustomConstaint() } }
);

Answer 3

If you are trying to utilise web forms in a MVC project then I would move your .aspx out of the views folder, as it isn't really a view, so something like WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx.

In web forms you map a route by calling the MapPageRoute method.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapPageRoute("Tickets", "Reports/Tickets", "~/WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx");
routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

You'll need to put that before the default MVC route.

Answer 4

you are doing it opposite. this maps your url Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx to { controller = "Reports", action = "Tickets" }
what u should do instead is set the url as
Reports/Tickets EDIT:- you can create a routeHandler just for routing to this .aspx page.. like this.

public class ASPXRouteHandler : IRouteHandler 
{ 
   public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext) 
   { 

     return BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath("~/Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx",  typeof(Page)) as Page; 
   } 
}

then u can add ur route to the existing routes table using

Route customRoute = new Route("Reports/Ticket",null, new ASPXRouteHandler()); 
      routes.Add(customRoute);