Hi All,

I was just wondering whether somebody could point me in the right direction.

I've developed a solcial networking website that uses profiles. I am wanting users to choose a nickname that can be used to access their profile.

e.g. www.website-address-here.co.uk/nickname-here

rather than having www.website-address-here.co.uk/Profile.aspx?profileID=xxx etc.

What would be the best way to achieve this? I'm not sure which would be the best solution.

Any advice would be great,

thanks very much,

Scott.

Using the global.asax is a pretty straightforward way to do this.  Here is an example.  http://www.csharpfriends.com/Articles/getTip.aspx?articleID=215

HI,

THanks for the link - it makes sense, however when I convert the code to VB i get an error on the word path on the line "Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(strCurrentPath)" - it says that "name path is not declared" should it be a different word?

does that make sense or am i just doing something stupid?

Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
       
        Dim strCurrentPath As String
        Dim strCustomPath As String
        strCurrentPath = Request.Path
        strCurrentPath = strCurrentPath.ToLower()
        ' the URL contains this folder name

        If strCurrentPath.IndexOf("/SomeSubFolder/") > -1 Then
            strCustomPath = "getContent.aspx?id=" & Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(strCurrentPath)
       
            ' rewrite the URL
            Context.RewritePath(strCustomPath)
        End If
    End Sub

thanks,

Scott
 

Path is a class in the System.IO namespace so this will work System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(strCurrentPath)