Quick question about Clean URLs

Hey guys,

I am relatively new to the Razor syntax and I just need a quick clarification on something that is covered in this tutorial: http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/tutorials/18-customizing-site-wide-behavior

I want to employ clean URL's - at the moment this is my code for a webpage I am toying with:

@{
var id=Request["id"];
var SQLSELECT = "SELECT * FROM topicDetails where ID=@0";
var db = Database.Open("MySite");
var Topic = db.QuerySingle(SQLSELECT,id);
var TopicHeader=Topic.Header;
var TopicDetails=Topic.Details;
}
  <h1>@Subject.Header</h1>
  <p>@Html.Raw(@Subject.Details)</p>

The URL I go to looks like this at the moment: http://localhost:2421/subject.cshtml?id=1 and I want to replace with http://localhost:2421/subject/1

I have a feeling I need to use UrlData in there to establish what is being requested but unsure how to code it in.. Any help would be appreciated :)

Re: Quick question about Clean URLs

You must be generating the URL with the querystring somewhere, so instead of adding a querystring, generate it like this:

/subject/@id

Then in your code, the value of id can be retrieved using UrlData[0]

Re: Quick question about Clean URLs

Mikesdotnetting

You must be generating the URL with the querystring somewhere, so instead of adding a querystring, generate it like this:
var id=Request["id"];
/subject/@id

Then in your code, the value of id can be retrieved using UrlData[0]

Relatively easy - I was on the right track, just overcomplicated a simple issue I guess.

var id=Request["id"];

With this:

var id=UrlData[0].AsInt();

On the back of that though I had issues with all my CSS not working, which was a matter of adding the @Href("~/blah") in a few places.. Thanks again for your help Mike!