RouteCollection.LowercaseUrls .Net 4.5

It’s such a good feeling to reduce code. Previously I’ve been using some custom code to get lower case routes in my ASP.Net MVC apps. There’s also a NuGet package for it. But if your ASP.Net MVC site runs on .Net 4.5, there’s now a much simpler way:

routes.LowercaseUrls = true;

Away goes this old code (thanks to @leedumond) which has the code on CodePlex:

public class LowerCaseRoute : Route
{
    //Constructors removed for clarity

    public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(
        RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
    {
        var path = base.GetVirtualPath(requestContext, values);

        if (path != null)
        {
            var virtualPath = path.VirtualPath;
            var indexOf = virtualPath.IndexOf("?");

            if (indexOf > 0)
            {
                var leftPart = virtualPath.Substring(0, indexOf)
                    .ToLowerInvariant();
                var queryPart = virtualPath.Substring(indexOf);
                path.VirtualPath = string.Concat(leftPart, queryPart);
            }
            else
                path.VirtualPath = path.VirtualPath.ToLowerInvariant();
        }

        return path;
    }
}

and the extension method

public static class RouteExtensions
{
    public static Route MapLowerCaseRoute(
        this RouteCollection routes,
        string name, string url, object defaults)
    {
        var defaultDictionary = defaults == null
            ? new RouteValueDictionary()
            : new RouteValueDictionary(defaults);

        var route = new LowerCaseRoute(
            url,
            defaultDictionary,
            new MvcRouteHandler());

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name))
            routes.Add(route);
        else
            routes.Add(name, route);

        return route;
    }
}

Yet another step taken to reduce the code base.

//Daniel